Who invented the alphabet?(english alphabet, mainly)?

The alphabet we use evolved over a period of a thousand years or so, coming from the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans. No one person invented it, unlike the Russian and Armenian alphabets which were invented by a single person who sat down in a fit of inspiration and wrote it out.

I think that you are a little behind in the school. In the first term, which alphabet ? The Latin, the Greek, the Cyrillic, the Arabic, the Chinese or which one ? Many people have been involved in it for a very loooong time. We might begin with the Egyptians, who used a symbolic writing, but became extinct. Then came the Sumerians, with a writing on clay tablets made with symbols like |||, ¯. Later the Greek made their alphabet, from which came the Latin one, and the Cyrillic, used by the Russians and the Bulgarians . Now, regarding the Latin alphabet ( the one we use in most of the world ), the Romans, 20 centuries ago, dominated most of Europe, and therefore, that is the alphabet that languages from European origin use. Thus, it was the Romans, 25 centuries ago, who invented our alphabet. Sorry. It wasn't Mexico nor Brazil. About the Arabian , the Chinese, Farsi writings I don't have much information. Sorry. I can say, nevertheless, that the Chinese writing ( used also by the Japanese, with some modifications ) does not represent letters, but words. In Chinese, words are very short, and thus, they can be represented by these characters. No, when the alphabet ( the one we use nowadays in the USA ) was invented, nobody used copyright. They were better times

It is generally held that the Latins adopted the Cumae alphabet‎, a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century B.C. from Cumae, a Greek colony in Southern Italy. Roman legend credited the introduction to one Evander, son of the Cimmerian Sibyl, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan War, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale. The Ancient Greek alphabet was in turn based upon the Phoenician alphabet. From the Cumae alphabet, the Etruscan alphabet was derived and the Latins eventually adopted 21 of the original 26 Etruscan letters.

The Latin alphabet spread, along with the Latin language, from the Italian Peninsula to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The eastern half of the Empire, including Greece, Asia Minor, the Levant, and Egypt, continued to use Greek as a lingua franca, but Latin was widely spoken in the western half, and as the western Romance languages evolved out of Latin, they continued to use and adapt the Latin alphabet.

With the spread of Western Christianity during the Middle Ages, the alphabet was gradually adopted by the peoples of northern Europe who spoke Celtic languages (displacing the Ogham alphabet) or Germanic languages (displacing earlier Runic alphabets), Baltic languages, as well as by the speakers of several Finno-Ugric languages, most notably Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian. The alphabet also came into use for writing the West Slavic languages and several South Slavic languages, as the people who spoke them adopted Roman Catholicism. The speakers of East Slavic languages generally adopted the Cyrillic alphabet along with Orthodox Christianity. The Serbian language uses both alphabets, with Latin being the predominant alphabet in the province of Vojvodina.

Over the past 500 years, the alphabet has spread around the world, to the Americas, Oceania, and parts of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific with European colonization, along with the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Swedish and Dutch languages. The Latin alphabet is also used for many Austronesian languages, including Tagalog and the other languages of the Philippines, and the official Malaysian and Indonesian languages, replacing earlier Arabic and indigenous Brahmic alphabets.

Hope this helps :)

The modern English alphabet consists of 26 letters derived from the Latin alphabet. Therefore, Evander would be considered the inventor. This dates back to the times of the Romans.

No one person. It evolved over thousands of years from many sources. Look under ALPHABET in the Brittanica or any other good encyclopedia for a full history.

Well, it's hazy, no one really knows who created the language, but it definitely originates from Latin. Modern latin is from Greece and it's surrounding areas, and language itself, especially more modern languages originate from the Middle East.

At least, that's what i know of the matter.

I'm pretty sure it evolved over many years, originating from latin.

Take a look here -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet

i think it was the founder of the alphabetty-spagettie company :)

the greeks.