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Jaspersion's avatar

> The Greeks, who invented the first fully-fledged alphabet

In what way were the earlier alphabets (Proto-Sinaitic, Hebrew/Canaanite, Phoenician) not fully-fledged?

Are you suggesting a special significance regarding the consistent use of explicit vowels?

Andrey Mir's avatar

Vowels, yes. A sign for sound. Recording speech without making an interpretative guess. Otherwise, it slips toward recording events or ideas—a bit less abstract, a bit more associative/analog.