WI: Phoenician Alphabet didn't evolve?

What, if anything, would happen if the Phoenician 'Alphabet' (although it didn't have vowels, and were closer to Hebrew and Arabic), didn't evolve into the Greek (and further down the line, Latin) Alphabets and said cultures instead took either the Hittite or a neighbouring Cuneiform writing system?
 

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A bigger question, in the immediate, is what happened to stop the Phoenicians developing an alphabet/spreading their culture. A lack of Pheonician colonies would change Europe quite a lot.
 
I'm thinking more of the Greek developing on another script than the Phoenician, instead of them being screwed ... prehaps due to a more angatonistic relationship between the Greek and the Phoenicians?
 
I'm thinking more of the Greek developing on another script than the Phoenician, instead of them being screwed ... prehaps due to a more angatonistic relationship between the Greek and the Phoenicians?

They'd could develop Linear B, a hieroglyphic which was used by the Mycenaeans, if any of the palace scribes survived the "Greek Dark Age". Though as I understand they adopted the Phoenician precisely because Linear B hadn't survived.
Alternatively, they develop one based on the Egyptian hieroglyphs of that period.
 
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