Where did the Greek sibilant letters come from?

1. Where did Greek letters come from?
2. How did the Greek alphabet come to be?
3. Who developed the Greek alphabet?
4. What is the difference between Phoenician and Greek alphabet?

Where did Greek letters come from?

The Greek alphabet is a writing system that was developed in Greece about 1000 BCE. It is the direct or indirect ancestor of all modern European alphabets. It was derived from the North Semitic alphabet via that of the Phoenicians.

How did the Greek alphabet come to be?

The Greek alphabet was born when the Greeks adapted the Phoenician writing system to represent their own language by developing a fully phonetic writing system composed of individual signs arranged in a linear fashion that could represent both consonants and vowels.

Who developed the Greek alphabet?

Hyginus' account. Hyginus recounts the following legends about the development of the alphabet: The three Fates created the first five vowels of the alphabet and the letters B and T. It is said that Palamedes, son of Nauplius invented the remaining eleven consonants.

What is the difference between Phoenician and Greek alphabet?

First, the order of the letters in the Greek alphabet is basically the same as that in the Phoenician. Second, the Phoenician letter-names were carried over into Greek with only minor change —alpha, beta, gamma, delta—even though to the Greeks these names were meaningless terms.