I forget the exact number of the ones in the Semitic alphabet, but we're talking about roughly twenty-five.

我忘了闪米特语中有多少字母,粗略说来大概有二十五个

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If you read a well, a good example of that kind of Semitic script is Hebrew.

如果你读的好,一个很好的关于闪米特语的例子就是希伯来语

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The letters, the design of the writing comes, in fact, from Asia, probably from--almost certainly from Phoenicia, the land that is now called Lebanon and the language that was for that script was Semitic language.

事实上,材料中的字母和符号都来自,亚洲,很可能来自--应该能肯定是,来自腓尼基,就是现在被叫做黎巴嫩的地方,书稿的语言用的是闪米特语

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