Who first thought of the Alphabet?

The letters if an alphabet are really sound signs. Those of the English alphabet are based on the Roman alphabet, which is about 2,500 years old. The capital letters are alomost exactly like those used in Roman inscriptions of the third century B.C.
Before alphabets were invented men used pictures to record events or communicate ideas. A pictures of several antelopes might mean "Here are good hunting grounds", so this was really a form of writing. Such "picture writing" was highly developed by the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, and Chinese.
In time, picture writing underwent a change. The picture, instead of just standing the object that was drawn, came to represent of a foot might indicate the verb "to walk". This stage writing is called "ideographic", or "idea writing".
The trouble with this kind of writing was that the messages might be interpreted by different people in different ways. So little by little this method was changed. The symbols came to represent combination of sounds. For example, if the word for "arm" were "id", the picture of an arm would stand for the sound of "id". This stage of writing might be called "syllabic writing".
The Babylonians and Chinese and the Egyptians never passed beyond this stage of writing. The Egyptian did make up a kind of alphabet by including among their pictures 24 signs which stood for seperate letters or words of one consonant each. But they didn't realize the value of their invention.About 3,500 years ago, people living near the eastern shore of the Mediterranean made the great step leading to our alphabet. They realized that the same sign could be used for the same sound in all cases, so they used a limited number of signs in this manner and these signs made up an alphabet.
A development of their alphabet was used by the Herbews and later the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians carried their alphabet to the Greeks. The Romans adopted the Greek alphabet with certain changes and additions and handed it down to the people of Western Europe in the Latin alphabet. From this came the alphabet we use today.
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