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human
ELI5: Is the standard order of the letters in the alphabet "random", or does it have a specific thought/system behind it?
gpt
we really don't know. We know that as far back as recorded history shows the phoenicians, who originated in present day syria, created the basic blueprint for the alphabet as we know it today. Over millennia the alphabet has evolved to fit the needs of the language spoken by peoples who adopted it. Some civilizations such as the greeks and latins have added letters to represent vowels. The exact order could be arbitrary, but is most likely in the original order that the phoenicians must have used it in.. besides vowels as their language was purley consonant.