What made Semitic alphabets so good that everyone ended up adopting them?

What made Semitic alphabets so good that everyone ended up adopting them? Hell our alphabet is from the Canaanites, the same people who burnt their own babies alive and boned animals in the Bible.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's much simpler than hieroglyphics or cuneiform. as to why it won out over a cuneiform based alphabet like the one in Ugarit, I don"t know.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the "semitic alphabet" isnt so good that everyone ended up adopting it, a specific "set" of canaanites were so influential that it ended up spreading (you know commerce and trade does that)

    specifically... the phoenecians. the most powerful families on the world claim they can trace their bloodline back to that era, who knows

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the "semitic alphabet" isnt so good that everyone ended up adopting it
      why would everyone have adopted it if it wasn't better than the alternatives? backwards logic

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        common language between different people as result of trading with the same entity, duh

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you are a moron

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Phoenicians were the original hand rubbers

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Greeks invented the concept of alphabets, the Phoenician script was an abjad and the Greeks turned it in to an alphabet and then it spread all over Europe. So if I was gonna be half the race obsessed haploautist you clearly are, I'd say it's the Greek alphabet that's unusually successful, they just happened to adopt and adapt an old Mediterranean trading script. And that trading script outcompeted other scripts in the Mediterranean because they were Egyptian miner's scribbles intended to be simple to read with a small number of simple characters, which also made it easy for anyone to pick up and learn and use for writing their own language. Up until then all scripts were intentionally obtuse and ridiculously difficult to learn, because that made it possible to centralize scribal education, helping monarchs to control the entire literate population of their country.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not to mention that greeks already had an alphabet. It was just forgotten after the bronze age collapse.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Not to mention that greeks already had an alphabet. It was just forgotten after the bronze age collapse.
        Tell me more about this lost form

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Linear B which we think was a Pictograph, derived from Linear A which I was likely the Minion Script.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Minion Script
            I didn't know the alphabet was descended from boomer memes

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Bronze age Greece had numerous scripts, related to each other but not to any script that still exists today. They seem to all be syllabaries mixed with ideograms, descended from the one called Linear A which was likely the script of the ancient Minoans, but only the one called linear B has been deciphered. It was used to write Mycenean Greek, one of the oldest examples of written Indo-European language. But all we really have in it is the usual crap we get from bronze age tablets. Lists of warehouse inventories, receipts, that kind of thing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      http://www.fact-index.com/v/vi/vinca_alphabet.html

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know why you linked me this schizo shit

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >"Greeks invented alphabet"

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What do you think the word alphabet means?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Greeks invented the concept of alphabets, the Phoenician script was an abjad
      Giga cope. An "abjad" is still an alphabet, greeks just made there's easier for their morons.
      >Greeks turned it in to an alphabet and then it spread all over Europe.
      Kek no moron, if it was just the Greeks rhealphabet would not have spread far, it spread due to the Romans. And it still was just a copy of the Phoenician'x

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Giga cope. An "abjad" is still an alphabet,
        No it isn't, you fricking idiot.
        >greeks just made there's easier for their morons.
        >le semites made it so much easier and better cuz they're smart
        >le greeks made it easier cuz they're morons
        >Kek no moron, if it was just the Greeks rhealphabet would not have spread far, it spread due to the Romans. And it still was just a copy of the Phoenician'x
        Except that the Etruscans, Celts and Proto-Germanic tribes and probably many others all got their scripts directly from the Greeks and spread non-Latin derivatives of the Greek alphabet all over Europe. The Romans only spread their version by conquering everything and replacing the local alphabets.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          And the Greeks got their alphabet from the Canaanites...

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            No the Greeks invented alphabets. Learn what words mean.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The Greeks didn't get their alphabet from the Minoans or Mycenaeans, stop coping. A quick Google search will prove you wrong.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            (you)

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >No it isn't, you fricking idiot.
          Pic related. Delusional Freak.

          >Except that the Etruscans, Celts and Proto-Germanic tribes and probably many others all got their scripts directly from the Greeks and spread non-Latin derivatives of the Greek alphabet all over Europe.
          Again moron, this is no different from the grekoids themselves adopting the Phoenician Alphabet. Keep coping with your imaginary alphabet/abjad distinction, angloid semantics moron.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is katakana/hirigana the only widespread non-semitic alphabet?

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No moron. A derivative of a derivative of a derivative is not a 'Semetic alphabet' when it is clearly something very different.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Phoenicians were prolific traders. communicating and trading with so many people required some sort of mutual intelligibility and due to their interconnectedness, the Phoenician script spread all around the Mediterranean

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It spread because the people they traded with either didn't have alphabets or had very inefficient alphabets. The Semitic alphabets were so revolutionary compared to Egyptian/cuneiform because of how tedious those systems are, with pictures/symbols representing entire words themselves.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You'd sound a lot less moronic if you knew what is and isn't an alphabet

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The frick are you talking about? Do you think the phoenician alphabet is not an alphabet?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I think the Phoenician SCRIPT isn't an alphabet because it's literally not an alphabet. Learn what words mean.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Latin SCRIPT isn't an alphabet either then, sweaty

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Latin SCRIPT isn't an alphabet either then, sweaty

            He's right, actually. The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad since it lacks vowels.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you all wanna sound so smart by using more insults than arguments, you look like children pretending to be adults

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >moooooooooom, i really showed this guy on the internet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I accept your concession of defeat and moronation

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >i think everyone is the same guy, red letters trigger me btw

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whatever you say, b***hcuck moron

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >levantine shitskin we wuzing
    How do you cope the oldest version is from wadi el hol in egypt proper born straight out of egyptian hieratic and hieroglyphs?
    Even if people with semitic mother tongue were involved they were semitic from the maternal side, people with egyptian fathers of higher status than the slave miners

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