History of the Greek alphabet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Greek_alphabetThe majority of the letters of the Phoenician alphabet were adopted into Greek with much the same sounds as they had had in Phoenician. However, Phoenician, like other Semitic scripts, has a range of consonants, commonly called gutturals, that did not exist in Greek: ʼāleph [ʔ], hē [h, e, a], ḥēth [ħ], and ʽayin [ʕ]. Of these, only ḥēth was retained in Greek as a consonant, eta, representing the [h] sound in those dialects that had an [h], while the consonants ʼāleph, hē and ʽayin becam…
Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabetThe Phoenician alphabet was deciphered in 1758 by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, but its relation to the Phoenicians remained unknown until the 19th century. It was at first believed that the script was a direct variation of Egyptian hieroglyphs , [20] which were deciphered by Champollion in the early 19th century. Näytä lisää