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My understanding is that when the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, they had to reassign certain letters (that weren’t used in Greek) to represent their vowels. Is there any information how they chose which letter would go with which vowel?

by /u/UnderwaterDialect in /r/AskHistorians

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