The Phoenicians employed an alphabet of twenty-one consonants. They left no literature. You can't be literary without a few vowels.

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950) - Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse - Hannibal


The Phoenicians employed an alphabet of twenty-one consonants. They left no literature. You can't be literary without a few vowels.

The Phoenicians employed an alphabet of twenty-one consonants. They left no literature. You can't be literary without a few vowels.

The Phoenicians employed an alphabet of twenty-one consonants. They left no literature. You can't be literary without a few vowels.

The Phoenicians employed an alphabet of twenty-one consonants. They left no literature. You can't be literary without a few vowels.