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Latin alphabet

Alphabet of the Romans, developed from the Etruscan alphabet before 600 BCE; today the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world.

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Printing press According to Robert Lechêne Scholarship & press 1
Given as one reason printing took hold in 15th-century Europe; movable type itself was invented earlier, in China, and used in Korea.

Invention of the alphabet Scholarship & press 2 3
By way of the Phoenician, Greek and Etruscan alphabets.

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Printing, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Scholarship & press Archived copy
European writing was based on an alphabet composed of a limited number of abstract symbols. This simplifies the problems involved in developing techniques for the use of movable type manufactured in series.
Latin alphabet, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Scholarship & press Archived copy
Developed from the Etruscan alphabet at some time before 600 bce, it can be traced through Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician scripts to the North Semitic alphabet used in Syria and Palestine about 1100 bce.
The Phoenicians (1500–300 B.C.), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History), Oct 2004. Scholarship & press Archived copy
Perhaps the most significant contribution of the Phoenicians was an alphabetic writing system that became the root of the Western alphabets when the Greeks adopted it.

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