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2. The alphabet The need to make relationships between different kinds of people easier encouraged the Phoenicians to invent a quick and easy script: in this way, the Phoenician alphabet, with 22 symbols which represented the most important sounds of the human voice, was born. The Phoenician script, like other types of ancient scripts, went from right to left.Aleph is the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, and it corresponds to our a 3. The Phoenician script Alphabetical script composed of -22 symbols Only consonants From the syllabic-cuneiform to the phonetic one (correspondence symbol=sound) This kind of alphabet was much easier than the ancient pitographic and ideographic ones, like the Egyptian or the CuneirormIt was understood and written better and easier by everyone, not just by scribes and priests. The Phoenicians spread their system throughout many places which they visited during their sea journeys: the Greek and the aramaic alphabets show clear signs of their derivation from the Phoenician one.PURPOSE OF THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABETThe Nora Stone, found near Cagliari, Shows clear inscriptions written in Phoenician.THE MOST ANCIENT RELIC WHICH HAS PHOENICIAN INSCRIPTIONS IS THE SARCOPHAGUS OF AHIRAM (AN ANCIENT PHOENICIAN KING), WHICH WAS FOUND IN BYBLOS IN 1923 WHICH DATES BACK TO 1200 B.C.