The Alphabet — Gift to All Languages | Heritage Metal Sign

Every letter you are reading right now is a Phoenician invention. Twenty-two consonant symbols, developed around 1050 BCE, that could be combined to write any word in any language. Spread to the Greeks, who added vowels. Greeks passed it to Romans. Romans spread it to Europe. Arabs adapted it eastward. Today, the vast majority of writing systems trace their ancestry to those twenty-two letters. The Phoenician letters, the merchant's clay tablet, the inheritance that made literacy possible — in permanent aluminum.

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