古漢字中〈木〉字偏旁的形聲字
古漢人為漢語語素造字時，首先會嘗試使用最簡單直接的象形法，把語素所指物的特徵簡約地畫出來。一些樹木有比較明顯的特徵，例如桑樹和栗樹。桑樹的葉生長得特別茂密，而且遠在殷商之前已是家喻戶曉的用作養蠶的飼料。栗樹上一簇簇包裹着兩三粒栗子的毛刺球，格外引人注目（見下面兩張照片）。
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Section 12 of The Origin of the Greek Alphabet : A New Perspective
We consider Section 12 to be the most important chapter of our treatise on the origin of the Greek alphabet, and we recommend that the readers read it carefully in order to understand how the concepts of vowel and consonant arose in the first quarter of the first millennium BC in ancient Greece.
12 From the Phoenician way of writing Greek names to the Greek way of writing the Greek language
12.1 From the writing of Greek names to proto-Greek alphabetic writing
As was said earlier, the Phoenicians might have needed to record Greek names in book-keeping in the second millennium BC. In theory they could write a Greek name either with or without matres. But in practice the Phoenicians would soon come to realize that a Greek name written with matres, being less ambiguous in sound representation, was much easier to read out or read back afterwards than one written without matres. Thus the Phoenicians would probably decide at an early stage to use matres to write Greek names. However, their way of writing Greek names might have escaped the notice of the Greeks at the earliest stage because the Greeks had not yet realized that it could be put to some significant use in their daily lives.
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