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Which group of people are credited with making the first phonetic alphabet?

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By at least the 8th century BCE the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their own language, creating in the process the first "true" alphabet, in which vowels were accorded equal status with consonants.

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it was directly derived from phoenician
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