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Alphabet

Postby mnichols0 » Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:30 am

An alphabet is "a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language." Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, among other writing systems, does not have an alphabet, since the writing is pictorial and represents language at a word or syllable level.

Our word alphabet is ultimately derived from the first two letters of the Hebrew and Greek alphabets: 'aleph-bet and alpha-beta. However, English filched the word from the Latin alphabetum in the early 16th century.

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Re: Alphabet

Postby Slava » Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:33 pm

Amazing that we haven't seen this one before. :o :shock:
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