Why is the alphabetical order that way? Who said that that’s the order that it had to be?
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The Phoenicians ran with the idea, developing the world's first fully formed alphabet. The Greeks started to use an alphabetic system of their own around the 8th century BC, adding vowels and the letter X.
The alphabet may have had a numerical component, and the order is reverse-engineered to the follow and match the numbers that the letters represented for merchants. ... When the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician letters, they added their own homemade letters to the end, like the ancestral X.
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The Phoenicians ran with the idea, developing the world's first fully formed alphabet. The Greeks started to use an alphabetic system of their own around the 8th century BC, adding vowels and the letter X.
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