wordAlphabetWordsA script that marks consonants and vowels as letters. Not abjad, and not syllabary.Hellenic religionAlphabet appears in Hellenic religion.Herodotus narrates the Greeks’ taking of Phoenician letters into an alphabet. A named alphabet in that traveler’s speech, not letter as a single character already met and not a script-system dump of every abjad.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.