Alterity

Epigraphers suggest that the Hebrew alphabet was invented by the Semitic slaves working Pharaoh's turquoise mines in the South Sinai, circa the 1400s BCE.

Inspired by the hieroglyphs but in every sense, whether by design or accident, enslaved to becoming their opposite, the alephtav took the first sound of the word for which the image-sign stood and erected the sign to stand for that first sound. This is known as the acrophonic method.