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Bob LeChevalier wrote:
Holger Dansk wrote:
The Greeks put vowels in the alphabet which made language a lot more
useful.

Are you claiming that Hebrew, the language of the Bible, and Arabic,
the language of the Qur'an, are not "useful"?

The introduction of vowels into the alphabet, made separately
at least by the Greeks and the Indians, made the alphabet more
suitable for Indo-European languages. One can get by in the
Semitic languages rather well without them.

The Greeks mainly converted consonants and semi-vowels into
full vowels; the Indians added a new set of letters. That
this is needed in Indo-European languages can be attested by
the East European Jews converting some of the consonants into
vowels for Yiddish, which is mainly a dialect of German.
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