The Mystery of the Latin Alphabet

The letter Y joined the Latin alphabet as a special character for translating Greek words into Latin. The order of Y and Z seems arbitrary, but otherwise we know why those are the last ones. There was a script developed in Egypt in the 2000s BC and then a people called the Phoenicians who lived in interlinked trading cities on the Mediterranean. They took it and made a Phoenician alphabet and used it for their language. And that alphabet had 22 letters which are the roots of today's Latin alphabet.