They are believed to have developed the first known alphabetic system of writing.

迦南人被认为开发出第一个已知的字母书写系统。

" There are just not enough securely dated early alphabetic inscriptions currently known, " he said.

“目前已知的早期字母铭文没有足够可靠的年。”

The Canaanite alphabet was the base for later alphabetic systems, such as Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.

迦南字母是后来的字母系统的基础，如希伯来语、希腊语、拉丁语和西里尔语。

Some moved past it to alphabetic writing, with characters representing sounds, not syllables.

有些人超越了它，转而使用字母书写，字符代表声音，而不是音节。

He tried decoding them because it seemed to him like they should be alphabetic.

他试图对它们进行解码， 因为在他看来它们看起来应该是字母表的。

Yes. And there are other words like dramatic, to do with theatre and drama; alphabetic, to do with the alphabet, and artistic, to describe things to do with art. Finn, are you artistic?

是的。还有其他的词——dramatic，与戏剧有关的；alphabetic，与字母有关的；artistic，与艺术有关的。芬恩，你有艺术细胞吗？