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Detailed explanation-1: -The alphabet remained, however, essentially a Semitic alphabet of 22 letters, written from right to left, with only consonants represented and phonetic values unchanged from the North Semitic script.

Detailed explanation-2: -They spoke a Northern Semitic language and adapted the Proto-Canaanite alphabet into one that was much more efficient. The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters, but only represented the sounds for consonants, making it a consonantal alphabet.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters, each for sound rather than a word or phrase. It provided the basis for the Hebrew and Arabic alphabet as well as the Greek alphabet which gave birth to the Latin alphabet which beget the modern alphabet.

Detailed explanation-4: -A fairly small group of traders and merchants known as the Phoenicians created the foundation for the modern English alphabet and other alphabets. They organized a system of 22 consonants into what became the alphabet used not only by English speakers, but by speakers of many of the world’s languages.