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Phoenician, earlier, hieroglyphs, sign, alphabets, sound, coast, spread
In the past people used to write in pictures, or ... . Then about 2,500 BC
people started using the alphabet. Today there are several important ... but each
one has a ... for each sound. Some have many signs for the same ... and this
makes it difficult to read them. The most important of the early alphabets was
the ... alphabet. The Phoenicians travelled around a lot and ... their alphabet
across the Mediterranean and the ... of North Africa. Other countries changed
the alphabet to fit their own language's sounds. Many people think their alphabet
comes from the Greek alphabet but in fact it comes from the ... Phoenician one.

1. Hieroglyphics 2. Alphabets 3. Sign 4. Sound 5. Pheonician 6. Spread 7. Coast 8. Earlier