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Pretty much. English borrowed it from Latin because it’s posh. And Latin borrowed it from Greek because it’s posh. But at the end of the day it’s in the same spirit as “the ABC”, or Latin “abecedarius”.
Wow, I can’t believe I never put that together before.
If it isn’t, then where else would the word “alphabet” come from?
Oh wait, you could look at the Hebrew alphabet and pretend that the word came from its first two letters: Aleph and Bet.
This is what I thought. From Hebrew.
From Phoenician actually