Who knows Who?
By xuy2xfreak88
@xuy2xfreak88 (182)
November 6, 2012 10:22am CST
I was just wondering about who created the Alphabets? When did it starts? which country?
3 responses
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
6 Nov 12
The art of writing developed more or less independently in different parts of the world. The Roman alphabet developed from the Greek, which, in turn, was borrowed from the Phoenician script.
Writing itself seems to have developed independently around 3200BC in the areas around the Nile (now Egypt) and in the valley of the Tigris.
There is a short history of writing here: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab33 and a nice collection of most of the scripts which have ever existed (or been invented) here: http://omniglot.com/writing/definition.htm
@soorajsrs7srs (636)
• India
6 Nov 12
Th English word alphabet came into middle English from late Latin word Alphabetum which in turn originated in the Greek word alpha and beta.it has started on 27th century BC in ancient Egypt.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
7 Nov 12
Writing - or rather the representation of language in symbols - developed far earlier than the 27th Century BC, soorajsrs7srs. There is archaeological evidence that people were already writing symbols to represent sounds in 3200BC both in Egypt and in Mesopotamia, as I pointed out above.
@robspeakman (1700)
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7 Nov 12
I can't really add anything to this conversation as the question had been so elegantly.
However I will add that my mother banned Alphabet pasta from our home because my brothers and I would spell out swear words.
@habibti320 (925)
• United States
7 Nov 12
Which alphabet are you referring to? One of my favorite stories is the story of the Korean alphabet. Korean King Sejong (around 1446) invented an alphabet in which each letter corresponds to the shape of the mouth when pronounced. He wanted to promote literacy among his people. You can find out more at http://www.omniglot.com/writing/korean.htm
