I have been led to believe that the Phoenician writing system was a syllabary, and that the Greeks made an alphabet out of it.
Are they using "alphabet" in an informal sense, in the article, to include syllabaries? Or am I misinformed?
And then, what are the hieroglyphs? Are they just talking about the specific set of letters we call our alphabet, and not the idea of an alphabet, which surely the Egyptians had? Unless that is itself a syllabary, and so doesn't count?
Are they using "alphabet" in an informal sense, in the article, to include syllabaries? Or am I misinformed?
And then, what are the hieroglyphs? Are they just talking about the specific set of letters we call our alphabet, and not the idea of an alphabet, which surely the Egyptians had? Unless that is itself a syllabary, and so doesn't count?