The earliest history of alphabetical writing is used for Semitic in Levant in the 2nd millennium BC. Most or almost all of the alphabetical texts used throughout the world today eventually return to this Semitic alphabet. Its first origins can be traced back to the Proto-Sinait manuscripts developed in Ancient Egypt to represent the language of the Semitic worker in Egypt. The script is partially influenced by the older Egyptian hierarchy, cursive script related to Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Particularly through the Phoenician and Aramaic languages, two very related Semitic sketch family members used in the early first millennium BC, the Semitic alphabet became the ancestor of several writing systems in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa and South Asia.
Some modern writers distinguish between Semitic consonant scripts, called "alphabets" and "true alphabets" in the narrow sense, the distinctive criterion is that the correct alphabet consistently gives letters to consonants and vowels by equation, while in an alphabet of each symbol usually a consonant abbreviation. In this sense, the first correct alphabet is the Greek alphabet, adapted from Phoenician. Latin, the most widely used alphabet today, in turn comes from the Greek (by way of Cumae and Etruria).
