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I do not buy the theory that the Latins learned the alphabet from the
Greeks, as some of the letter forms appear to hearken back to an earlier
stage of development than when the Greeks got the alphabet. If my reading of
the evidence is correct, that means that the Etruscans, from whom the Latins
learned the alphabet, got it before the Greeks did, thereby making the Latin
evidence independent of the Greek evidence.
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