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The alphabet that developed derived from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. However, this was not a well established script even hundred of years after it had developed in the Sinai and Near East. This gave opportunity for another rival script to develop, namely the cuneiform-based Ugaritic alphabet. However, It was a sudden change of events that led to the destruction of Ugarit that ultimately made the Canaanite alphabet become the dominant alphabet that has influenced almost all alphabets today. If those events did not happen, it is not clear that this would have been the case as Ugarit was an influential trade center.