GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Herodotus, the Phoenician prince Cadmus was accredited with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet-phoinikeia grammata, “Phoenician letters"-to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet.

Detailed explanation-2: -The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt. * They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols. It was quickly adopted by their neighbors and relatives to the east and north, the Canaanites, the Hebrews, and the Phoenicians.

Detailed explanation-3: -The invention of the Phoenician Alphabet, the prototype for all alphabets in the world, is the most significant contribution that Lebanon has made to the whole of humanity.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is believed that the Phoenicians developed their alphabet to make their bookkeeping easier. Unlike the Egyptian hieroglyphic system, in which a large number of pictures and symbols were used to represent sounds, the Phoenicians alphabet used a small number of symbols to represent sounds.