In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the resolution, and by December 1999, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation was accepting design proposals.
Which best explains why the Phoenician alphabet was developed? to aid in land conquests to help trade transactions to educate the government to stop foreign invasions.
The Phoenician alphabet is composed of 22 characters, all of which are consonants. Early translators were baffled when they found out that there are no vowels in this particular way of writing but it was then assumed that the characters were formed by how it was spoken, and vowel sounds are automatically part of it.