Phoenician Alphabet Research Paper

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In 1500 BC, The Phoenician alphabet was developed. It had 22 symbols. This was adopted by the greeks in 900 BC and then modified in 800 BC with vowels.
Around 509 B.C, The Romans adopted the alphabet and added several consonants. All the Western European scripts come from the Classical Latin alphabet. 350 B.C , left to right writing became standard. 200 B.C. serifs first appeared, and there was a significant improvement in base-line alignment of

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