Question: What Was the First Alphabet?
Answer: A slightly different question from "what was the world's first writing system?" the answer to the question "what was the world's first alphabet?" is less subject to dispute. The Phoenicians are credited with developing the world's first alphabet, which was then modified by the addition of vowels, by the Greeks, whose first two letters, alpha and beta -- drawn from the first two (consonantal) letters of the Hebrew alphabet -- were put together to form the name "alphabet."
