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Complétez les lettres manquantes dans le paragraphe. Chaque tiret bas (_) correspond à une lettre manquante. Tapez le mot complet pour chaque élément.
Thème : How the Phoenician alphabet spread around the Mediterranean0 / 10 espaces remplis
The alphabet used for English today can be traced back more than three thousand years to the Phoenicians, a trading people of the eastern Mediterranean. Their (1)alph____ contained (2)on__ twenty-two (3)let____, and (4)ea__ one (5)repre______ a (6)cons_____, which (7)ma__ the (8)sys___ far (9)eas___ to (10)le___ than older scripts with hundreds of signs. Greek traders later borrowed it and added letters for vowels, and that Greek version eventually developed into the Latin alphabet we use now.
Mots à compléter :
#1
alph____
#2
on__
#3
let____
#4
ea__
#5
repre______
#6
cons_____
#7
ma__
#8
sys___
#9
eas___
#10
le___