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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 Is the order of the Latin alphabet completely arbitrary, or are the letters of the alphabet arranged that way for a reason?
gpt
The letters are organized that way because the alphabet was (somewhat) inherited from prior cultures, and they had a similar order.

So the Latin script is inherited from the Etruscans, who inherited it from the Greeks, who inherited it from the Phoenicians, etc. It all traces back to the Ugarit people who lived in the Levant a few thousand years ago, who themselves were (apparently) misusing Egyptian hieroglyphics, and who ordered them the way they did for reasons that have long since been lost to time.