Legibility And Reader-Friendly Font
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possible for Phoenician to be employed in multiple languages. Its evolution took different directions, and many different alphabets emerged, all influenced by the writers and optimized for writing.
But Phoenician not only was the first proper alphabet (or rather abjad, as it contained only consonants), but the only one optimized for readability! It used a system of acrophony to name the letters. Their names are essentially the word values of the original pictogram for each letter. For example, letter Aleph was derived from the Semitic word for “ox”, and the shape of this letter derived from a hieroglyph depicting an ox’s head, complete with horns and ears. Or Ayin (representing the sound which has no equivalent in European languages) – derived from the word “ayn” (“eye”), and it looked like an eye.
However, Phoenician did not fit Indo-European
