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Why was the Phoenician alphabet easier to use than previous alphabets?

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The Phoenician alphabet was easy to read. It was alphabetic. The symbols represented sounds that created words rather than the earlier alphabets that represented syllables. Each symbol was assigned a single letter instead of a group of letters assigned a certain sound. This method was more precise when writing.

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