What is the Ogham alphabet?
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What is the Ogham alphabet?
The Ogham Alphabet:
All of the alphabets used today in Europe and Eurasia are ultimately descended from ancient Semitic scripts like Phoenician, which were the first to assign one letter to each sound of a language and to combine them as needed to spell out words. This system, which was limited to consonants, was made by the Greeks into a script that combined consonants and vowels; this was then adopted by the Romans who spread it to Europe along with Latin. The Slavic scripts, on the other hand, originated from Greek when Byzantine missionaries brought Christianity to Eastern Europe.
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View this answerThe Ogham writing system was a group of 25 characters used to write Old Irish between the 4th and 9th centuries CE. The set of letters these...
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