The Latin alphabet is undoubtedly the world’s most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back in time to the eras of ancient Greek and Roman dominance of the entire Western world.
However, its most obvious and prominent influence derived from the Greek alphabet itself.
It was no other than the Euboean variation of the Greek alphabet, used on the island of Euboea (Evia) in Greece, which ultimately created what we now call the ”Western Greek alphabets.”
The ancient Greeks of Chalkis were the first to colonize the mainland of today’s Italy.
As early as the 8th century BC, Chalkideans sailed to Italy and established the first Greek colony on the peninsula, the city of Cumae (Κύμη – Kymi).
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