A comparative study of the world's major writing systems
This treatise strives to give a clear account of how ancient Greek alphabetic writing could naturally evolve into the world’s first segmental writing system, in which vowel and consonant letters are used to represent vowels and consonants respectively.
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Preface to The Origin of the Greek Alphabet
The birth of the Greek alphabet in the first quarter of the first millennium BC marks a milestone in the development of the writing systems of mankind. A new type of writing system suited to the phonological structures of Greek and many other European languages had been invented by the Greeks at the latest by the eighth century BC. Continue reading “Preface to The Origin of the Greek Alphabet : A New Perspective”
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This treatise is about how Greek segmental writing evolved from the Phoenician way of writing Greek names with both Phoenician signs and matres lectionis. Continue reading “Abstract of The Origin of the Greek Alphabet: A New Perspective”
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