An alphabet is a set of letters usually presented in a fixed order which is used for writing the words of a particular language or group of languages. The modern Russian alphabet has 31 letters By two and a half he knew the alphabet. a set of letters, arranged in a particular order, and used in writing the Greek/Roman etc alphabet (alphabetum, from , from alpha ( ALPHA) + beta ( BETA)). Set of symbols or characters that represent language's sounds in writing. Each character usually represents a simple vowel, a diphthong (two vowels), or one or two consonants. A writing system in which one character represents a whole syllable is called a syllabary. The first alphabet is believed to have been the North Semitic, which originated in the eastern Mediterranean region between 1700 and 1500 BC. Alphabets that arose in the next 500 years included the Canaanite and Aramaic, from which the modern Hebrew and Arabic alphabets descended, and the Greek (ancestor of the Latin alphabet), considered the first true alphabet because it includes both consonants and vowels. Scholars have attempted to establish an exact correspondence between each sound and its symbol in new alphabets such as the International Phonetic Alphabet. Arabic alphabet Cyrillic alphabet Greek alphabet Hebrew alphabet International Phonetic Alphabet Latin alphabet Roman alphabet