Letters in the alphabet:

Numbers are listed in alphabetical order as if they were spelled out. So, an organization with a number like ’24/7Service’, would be alphabetized as if it said, ‘twenty-four-seven service’.

Rule 1. – Alphabetic Order a. alphabetize names by comparing the first unit letter by letter. If the first letters are the same, file in terms of the second letter, and so on.

To put numbers in order, place them from lowest (first) to highest (last). This is called “Ascending Order”. Think of ascending a mountain. Example: Place 17, 5, 9 and 8 in ascending order.

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.

However, 99% of the worlds alphabets come from these 9 alphabets:

• Latin.
• Greek.
• Cyrillic.
• Armenian.
• Korean.
• Hebrew (only considered a pure alphabet when written with vowels)
• Arabic (debatable, given that even with vowels, it doesn’t represent all the sounds of every dialect)
• Braille.

Phonology. The Central dialect of Rotokas possesses one of the world’s smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has been claimed to have fewer.) The alphabet consists of twelve letters, representing eleven phonemes.

Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet, also called Roman alphabet, the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and the languages of most of Europe and those areas settled by Europeans.

modern English alphabet

The Greeks and Romans considered five different peoples as the possible inventors of the alphabet—the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Cretans, and Hebrews. Among modern theories are some that are not very different from those of ancient days.

Phoenicians

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So back in 1750BC, a copper merchant called Nanni sent a letter to a copper smelter called Ea-nasir. Nanni complained about the poor quality of the copper ingots his agent was being offered, the rude treatment given to his agent, and how he (Nanni) now had neither copper ingots nor his money.

Sumerian civilization

Wiki Answers reports: “the oldest book in the world is the Bible” (here). Thus the oldest book in the world must surely be the Gutenberg Bible (oldest printed book in the West, from c. 1455) or Buddhism’s Diamond Sutra (oldest printed book in the East, from c. 868), as in this Huffington Post article.

Codex of Leicester