In this task, you are given an input list. A list contains several comma-separated items written within brackets. You need to return the count of all the alphabetical elements in the given list. Return 0 if no alphabetical element in the list
['E', 'Q', 'I', '8959', 'a', '1249', 'm', '147', 'x', '1339', 'T', '8149', 'p', '3139', '7669', 'H', '4501', 'k']