In the seventh century B.C., the Roman alphabet was adapted from the Etruscan alphabet, which in turn had been adapted in the previous century from a western Greek alphabet, which itself had been adapted earlier in the same century from the Phoenician alphabet.

• Awhich itself had been adapted earlier
• Badapting itself earlier
• Citself being adapted earlier
• Dhaving been earlier adapted itself
• Eearlier itself having been adapted