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languages very well. First, because of the difference in phonetics. Second, because Poenician alphabet lacked vowels. In Semitic languages it did not matter so much, but in European languages vowels play an important role, and without them these languages would be unintelligible (compare: “fill”, “full”, “fall”).
The Greek alphabet originated about the 9th century B.C. as a radical modification of the Phoenician. It was the first alphabet in the narrow sense, that is, a writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel and each consonant. The vowels were made out of Semitic consonants that were superfluous in Greek. E.g., Aleph was transformed into Alpha, and hence the Latin ‘A’ and Cyrillic ‘?’. Since now on, the consonants would always be accompanied by vowel signs to create a pronounceable unit.
But still, people used to perceive the letters as
