Ø is 100% real, our Lord and savior, Hans Ørberg, even has it in his name! Must be real then.

Yep, because Phoenician was a RTL language, but its descents are LTR. Later on, they flipped letters to match the direction, since it was uncomfortable to write letters from a right to left language from left to right.

i don’t understand your comment.

how modern is modern latin?

Besides the sans serif modern (i guess to imply modernity) it’s an accurate image. I honestly don’t know why they did that, pretty much the same thing.

i wasn’t an i. It was a different sound represented by a sign that resembled i.

For the I to Z, I’m not entirely sure, but it doesn’t seem too ridiculous.

As for why it was flipped, it’s because Phoenician was right to left, and Greek/latin are descended from it, but they are left to right instead. I guess the ancient Greeks/Latin tribes didn’t bother just fixing the letters. They eventually catched up and flipped it later on, though.

Language evolution is wacky, but beautiful :)