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1. Greek Alphabet -- Phoenicians
   Greek ... introduced three new consonant signs, Φ, Χ and Ψ, appended to the end of the alphabet as they were developed. These consonants made up for the lack of comparable aspirates in Phoenician. In west Greek, Χ was used for /
2. Hebrew Alphabet
   The Hebrew Alphabet is of no random order. Central to the 22 letter alphabet are two sets of letters. These letter sets make up the words 'Israel' and 'Zion.' This link is an overview of the highlights of the research in an 'easy to understand' format.
3. Greek Alphabet -- Letters
   The Greek alphabet is thought to be where all important European alphabets came from. Although the alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians around the 10th century BC, there were many changes made to make it fit the Greek language. The main change was that some of the Phoenician letters that were for sounds not used in Greek were turned into vowels. The Phoenicians had written their alphabet without any vowels, so this change made writing a lot easier to read. Another change is that some new letters were invented for sounds in Greek but not in Phoenician. At first, Greek was written from right to left, the same as Phoenician, but after the 6th century BC, it was written from left to right.
4. Hebrew Alphabet -- Letters
   The Hebrew alphabet has other quirks as well. Five Hebrew letters (khaf, mem, nun, peh, tsadi), have special forms when they come at the end of a word: called (otiot sofiot). In addition, there are seven "prefix letters," (otiot ha-shimush), that are added on to the beginnings of words. These are indicated by the mnemonic device (moshe ve-calev), after Moses and the "good spy" Caleb. That Jewish tradition holds the letter and the printed word in high esteem is expressed most succinctly by the proverbial Hebrew expression (otiot mahkimot). "Letters will make you wise." You can count on it.
5. Greek -- Greek Clothing
   Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. The ancient languages which were probably most closely related to it, ancient Macedonian (a dialect of Greek) and Phrygian, are not well enough documented to permit detailed comparison. Among living languages Greek seems to be most closely related to Armenian (see ... Graeco-Armenian) and the Indo-Iranian languages.[5]
6. Hebrew Numerals -- Letters
   The system of numerals in Hebrew forms a quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In Hebrew notation, there is no notation for zero, and the numeric values for individual letters are added together. Each unit (1, 2, ..., 9) is assigned a separate letter, each tens (10, 20, ..., 90) a separate letter, and the hundreds 100, 200, 300, 400 a separate letter. This double meaning of letters gave rise to the gematria 1 in which these transformations are extensively used (cf. ... Wortrechnung
7. Greek -- Greek Language
   [T]he most distinctive characteristic of the Greek language is its powerful compound-constructing ability. The speaker is able to combine basic or derived terms in order to construct new, yet perfectly understandable compounds that express in one word what other languages would express in an entire clause, or even an entire sentence. This linguistic mobility is largely absent from Latin and its offspring languages. In the Homeric language, Thetis — the mother of Achilles, is described as "
8. Moses -- Egyptian Pharaoh
   Moses was a strong young man of forty who had been raised to fight and win battles for his Pharaoh, but he was ... a man who hated injustice. He came to the women's defense and saved them from the shepherds. Then he helped them water their father's flocks.
9. Runes -- Elder Futhark Runes
   The runes were a writing system used in Northern Europe. They were usually carved into wood or stone, so they consist of mostly straight lines. There were several variations in different places and times. The older set, or Elder Futhark, consists of twenty-four letters. The Scandinavian folks gradually simplified the futhark (named after the first letters) to the sixteen runes in use by later Viking times. The Anglo-Saxons on the other hand, expanded the system to accommodate new sounds in the language.
10. Greek Literature -- Ancient Greek Literature
    The evidence for the oral traditional basis of ancient Greek literature is both internal and comparative. The decisive impetus for research has been the comparative evidence of living oral traditions. The two most prominent names in the history of this research are Milman Parry (collected papers published posthumously in Parry 1971) and Albert Lord (definitive books published in 1960, 1991,1995). The first article in this volume and in the whole series, "Homer, Parry, and Huso" (Lord 1948), provides a vivid account of Parry's discovery procedures.

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