How the Phoenician alphabet made it into Arabic?

The Phoenician alphabet became part of Arabic through a long journey of traders and scribes passing letters from one place to another.

Imagine you have a bag of letters, like the ones on your backpack or in your name tag. The Phoenicians, who were clever sailors, used these letters to write down their messages when they traveled around the Mediterranean Sea.

When the Arabians saw how useful these letters were, they decided to use them too. But they changed some of the shapes and sounds to match their own language, kind of like when you take a toy from your friend and add your own special touch to it.

Over time, these letters kept changing as they moved through different lands. Like how your favorite snack can look slightly different in different stores, still the same inside, but shaped differently.

Eventually, those old Phoenician letters became the Arabic alphabet, which we use today for writing Arabic words like salam (hello) and kitaab (book). So, the journey of a letter can be long, but it’s always fun!