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22 or 24 or 26 signs only! The alphabet may also be
passed from one language to another without great
difficulty; the same alphabet is used now for English,
French, Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Dutch,
Czech, Croatian, Welsh, Finnish, Hungarian and others,
and has derived from the alphabet once used by the
ancient Hebrews, Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Greeks,
Etruscans and Romans.
Thanks to the simplicity of the alphabet, writing has
become very common; it is no longer a more or less
exclusive domain of the priestly or other privileged
classes, as it was in Egypt, or Mesopotamia, or China.
Education has become largely a matter of reading and
writing, and is possible for all. The fact that alphabetic
writing has survived with relatively little change for three
and a half millenniums, notwithstanding the introduction