来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第2集 第2集》
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from Phoenicia,来自腓尼基 -
the land that is now called Lebanon and the language就是现在被叫做黎巴嫩的地方 -
that was for that script was Semitic language.书稿的语言用的是闪米特语 -
Hebrew is close to what's going on there,希伯来人与这里发生的事情关系密切 -
but they don't take the language.但是他们不使用希伯来语 -
They borrow the characters from what had been already他们从十分接近字母系统的书写体系中 -
something quite close to an alphabet借来字符使用 -
and had only a relatively small number.而这些字符相对较少 -
I forget the exact number of the ones in the Semitic alphabet,我忘了闪米特语中有多少字母 -
but we're talking about roughly twenty-five.粗略说来大概有二十五个 -
I mean, you're into the ballgame for an alphabet我是说 你进入了一个字母表的游戏中 -
such as ours.这种字母表与我们的类似