![]() ![]() Which looked like C, for the k sound, giving them three ways to write k: It is their alphabet, a variant of early Greek, that theĮtruscans adopted, but dropped the b, d, g, and o. In 775 BC Greeks,įrom their largest island Euboea, settled in Ischia, an island in theīay of Naples. The Etruscans (who referred to themselves as rasna) wereįamiliar with both the Phoenician and Greek alphabets. (Cyrillic is derived from Classical Greek but without the y and w.) The chart shows Classical Greek (5 th century BC) and modern, for Scripts and found this to be about 90% true, with notable exceptions being It hasīeen noted that these changes coincided with the addition of vowels, and thatĬonsonantal alphabets are written from right-to-left, and syllabaries andĪlphabets (with vowels) are written left-to-right. Left-to-right, with samples of boustrophedon during the intervening period. Greek was originally written right-to-left but later changed to Were dropped, and four sounds (zai, semek, sade, sin) that should haveīecome (san, sigma, zeta, xei) became (zeta, xei, san, sigma). Phoenicians didnt have were added: f (f), Vowel sounds result from the Greeks dropping (or not hearing) the unneeded Splitting to become both w and the vowel u. aleph, he, yodh, and ayin became the vowels a, e, i, and o, with waw The Greeks were the first to represent vowels: alpha from aleph (ox head),īeta from beth (house)). Symbols, sounds, and names, but since the Greek language was different, Or Cypriots, which then spread over to Greece. In Phoenicia (more or less the coastal zone of present day Lebanon), To have been first appropriated from the Phoenician letters by Greeks The early Greek alphabet (8 th century BC) is thought Glyphs or letters, which were written right to left. The modern HebrewĪlphabet (shown for reference) descends from Phoenician via the Aramaic,Īnd Arabic is also based on this model. Was also Semitic the letter names still had meaning. Note that since the Phoenicians language The Asiatics alphabet was adopted by the Phoenicians, the earliestĮxamples from around 1100 BC. Written in arbitrary directions, and the glyphs were reversible. It had 24 glyphs (some think there were 27 total), which were Their alphabet spread back to their homelands (Sinai and further Indicates pretty much maintained its shape and sound till todays m). So the zigzag line glyph was now m (which as the chart From the chart, we see they adopted the local glyph,Īnd its meaning, but had that glyph represent the first letter in their It was expedient – learnable in days rather than the lifetime And this is the idea they adopted – one symbol, The horizontal zigzag line symbol represented net (water), and was therefore ![]() In this sense, the small one-consonant set was alphabetic. Of over 100 were glyphs that represented one, two, or three consonants. There were over 700 Egyptian hieroglyphs (at that time) but a subset They were present in Egypt variously as slaves, mercenaries, Various nomadic tribes occupying the present day Israel-Palestine-JordanĪreas between the Babylonian, Hittite (present day Turkey), and EgyptianĮmpires. In essence, the alphabet was invented by √siatics in Egypt aroundġ800 BC, by adopting some of the local hieroglyphs. References, which show that many of the theories are still quiteĬontentious, and do change with continuous new archeological discoveries. The following unfolding (really the charts annotation) is culled fromĪrticles, journals, popular books (noted below) and some of their The accompanying chart ( click on the graphic)Īttempts to trace each letter as fully as possible. A number of signs were dropped when the new peopleĭidnt have a certain sound, and new signs were derived, or an old sign Most symbols morphed to a greater or lesser degree as they went fromĪlphabet to alphabet, confounded by writing and letters often having The other symbols were inspired by Egyptian glyphs or newly invented. In an unbroken line to Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Modern English Alphabets Evolution from Egyptian Hieroglyphs The Modern English Alphabets Evolution from Egyptian HieroglyphsĪbout eight symbols from the modern alphabet can be traced back ![]()
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