Lesson Five: Ancient Alphabets

Guided Notes

1. The Egyptians used pictographs to develop this form of writing. _______________________

2. This alphabet started as pictographs and eventually evolved into linear drawings. ­­­­ _______________________

3. Cuneiform was mostly written on ­____________________________.

4. This language is called the “mother of all writing”. ________________________

5. Phoenician writing is the ancestor of the modern ____________________ alphabet.

6. The _________________  alphabet borrowed the Phoenician alphabet to create their own.