Writing Revolution
The creation of the alphabet has a real revolution in the world of writing, making writing accessible to most people. A sign indicates a sound. The initial akrofonicheskom version of the alphabet is also included and «tips» writing and reading that makes it easier mnemonichnost and distribute it - within the limits, of course, a language group. Perhaps a combination of mnemonics akrofonicheskoy with simple style and a small number of characters, and led to the rapid diffusion of the Phoenician alphabet to the territories inhabited by peoples speaking zapadnosemitskih languages. An additional advantage of the Phoenician alphabet, as compared with the Ugaritic alphabet was its independence from the carrier inscriptions, unlike cuneiform, tailored to the clay, Phoenician writing system was suitable for writing on any surface - from waxy doschechek to ostrakonov, which often make household record .
Another factor was the spread of adaptability: the alphabetic system is not tied to a particular language. Several dozens of letters, it theoretically allows you to write any language. Easy to explore the alphabet can not be compared to learning, say, several thousand Chinese characters. Introduction alphabet helped democratize writing. In societies that have used the alphabet, we do not find classes such as the Egyptian scribe, or the Chinese mandarins.
Flexibility phonetic system of writing has allowed her to apply and to record the languages of other linguistic groups: for example, the recurrence of Greek Drawing and adaptation of the Phoenician alphabet to write his speech - just as in Ugarov had been borrowed and adapted cuneiform. The result is similar: like Ugaritic, Greek alphabet loses akrofonichnost Phoenician. Some kind of a modern reflection of the loss akrofonichnosti are the ABC, in which the letter is accompanied by images of a subject whose name begins with the sound corresponding to that letter.