拉丁字母的历史(History of the Latin alphabet) 世界上现在最通用的字母就是拉丁字母(Latin alphabet),也就是英语的那26个字母ABC...。它们是语言的基础,也是信息化社会的基础。 下面,我简单回顾一下,拉丁字母的来历。 欧洲文明的基础是希腊文明,它使用的字母叫做希腊字母(Greek alphabet),也就是αβγ...那一...
Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet: Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE)As far as the early epigraphic material is concerned, the thrill of the Methone excavations is that they brought to light so much new material but at the same time...
Greeks adapted Phoenician writing to work with their language, turning consonants they couldn't pronounce into vowels. The ancient Etruscans borrowed this Greek alphabet for their language, which was in turn transformed by the Romans into the world-famous Latin script that's used to write languages...
the script was modified to add the vowels, giving rise to the first true alphabet. The Greeks took letters which did not represent sounds that existed in Greek, and changed them to represent the vowels. This marks the creation of a “true” alphabet...
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It holds the distinction for being the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history. ...
The early Greeks called the pentagram the Pentalpha. “Pent” for the number five and “Alpha” being the first letter of the Greek alphabet. The Pythagoreans considered its geometric qualities to be symbolic, both mathematically and metaphysically, of absolute perfection. ...
What Are the Letters of the Greek Alphabet? By N.S. Gill This shift resulted from changes to the Latin alphabet over time. The third letter of the Latin alphabet was a C, as in English. This "C" could be pronounced hard, like a K or soft like an S. In linguistics, this hard c...
The Kushans adopted elements of the Hellenistic culture of Bactria, adapting a form of the Greek alphabet into their own language. They practiced Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and possibly Saivism, while taking elements of the Indian culture which them mingled with Hellenistic culture. The empire attaine...
The Latin alphabet is the most widely used in history. It appeared as a variant of the Greek alphabet around 700 BC and quickly spread first to Europe and then to the rest of the world. This process was highly boosted by theexpansion of the Roman Empireto Western Europe and then with th...
The Phoenicians were descended from local Canaanite populations of the region and it is likely that is how they identified themselves. The word "Phoenician" definition comes from the Greek word for the rare and valuable Tyrian purple dye that the Phoenicians exported....