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Thinking about what I want to think about

My question was “Who created the alphabet and who decided which letters got certain sounds?” After I did my research, I found that Semitic people who lived in or near Egypt created the alphabet. They used their own specific symbols. Semitic people also had developed the sounds for the letters but it was refined and spread to other civilizations by the Phoenicians.

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