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recognition, in others their
phonetic values were
readjusted to
meet the needs of foreign languages,
some
retained the original letter names, and
others
dropped them altogether.5) Thus, the
alphabetical
order of letters,
characteristic of every
alphabet
in the strict
sense, turns out to be
its most
resistant aspect.6)
§
4. The alphabetical order of the Latin
ABC,
which dropped the
letters Zayin, Tet,
Samekh,
and Tzadi, but
added G, V, X, Y, and Z,
has
18 out of 22 letters in common
with the sequence
of letters in
the ancient Hebrew alphabet.7) The
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5) The cuneiform alphabet
was used in Ugarit during its last
two centuries, which
are contemporary with
the first two
centuries
of the Israelite
monarchy (ca. 1030–830
B. C. E.),
as
proved by
Immanuel Velikovsky,
From Exodus to
King
Akhnaton, (1952)
chapters 3 and
5; confirmed by Ed
Metzler,
Mosaical Metrology (N.
1) p. 24. Ugarit did not adopt the
alphabet
before Old Hebrew
had lost the "th"-sound
toward the end of
the ancient
Israelite republic, see below Note 34.
6) Neither the so-called
Egyptian "alphabet" of one-con-
sonant
hieroglyphs nor the so-called
Ethiopian "alphabet", in spite
of
its Sinaitic origin, are
alphabets in the strict
sense, because
Alef and
Bet were never placed
at the top of their
sequence of
letters, cf. Ed Metzler,
Ten Commandments (N. 3) p. 29.
7) The letter G was formed
out of C, and inserted
where
Zayin was dropped,
while V, X, Y, and Z
were added at the end
of
the ancient Hebrew alphabet,
and thus are irrelevant
for the
alphabetical order, cf.
TORAH OF THE ALPHABET
(N. 1) p. 23.
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