{"id":16,"date":"2017-01-17T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T23:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/?p=16"},"modified":"2020-04-27T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T09:33:33","slug":"abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/2017\/01\/17\/abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract of The Origin of the Greek Alphabet: A New Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This\u00a0treatise is about how Greek segmental writing evolved from the Phoenician way of writing Greek names with both Phoenician signs and <em>matres lectionis<\/em>.<!--more-->\u00a0A Phoenician sign basically represents several CV syllables with the same onset but different rhymes. When used to write a foreign name, such a sign requires a <em>mater<\/em> with the appropriate rhyme to indicate its sound value. Greek alphabetic writing began, we believe, when the Phoenicians used about twenty Phoenician signs and three <em>matres<\/em> to record Greek names. The Greeks later adopted this method of writing Greek names to write Greek. This method of writing Greek doubtless had flaws. The most noticeable was the inadequate number of <em>matres<\/em>. As a Phoenician sign plus a <em>mater<\/em> could represent as many as nine Greek syllables, the Greeks sometimes had difficulty guessing at the correct reading of some words. By creating two more <em>matres<\/em> subsequently, not only could the Greeks write their language more accurately, but they also unintentionally reduced the load of\u00a0two of the three traditional <em>matres<\/em> in their role of syllable indicator. With five <em>matres<\/em>, the Greeks could now use a Phoenician sign plus a <em>mater<\/em> to represent basically only one syllable. As three or even four of the five <em>matres<\/em> were spoken as V syllables in Greek, the Greeks would come to perceive each of these <em>matres<\/em> as a letter representing the rear part of the syllable. As the <em>mater<\/em> was so perceived, the preceding Phoenician sign would then come to be perceived as representing the front part of the syllable. When the Phoenician sign and the <em>mater <\/em>came to be perceived as letters representing the front and rear parts, or segments, of a syllable, Greek segmental writing was born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Revised on 3 April 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the whole text, please <a href=\"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Origin-of-the-Greek-Alphabet-A-New-Perspective-Revised-on-26-April-2020.pdf\">download here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 667<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0treatise is about how Greek segmental writing evolved from the Phoenician way of writing Greek names with both Phoenician signs and matres lectionis. Views: 667<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[6,17,15,12,13,22,19,97,14,21,18,20,16,5,11],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-articles","category-the-origin-of-the-greek-alphabet","tag-consonant","tag-consonantal-writing","tag-greek-alphabet","tag-hieroglyphic","tag-matres-lectionis","tag-monoconsonantal-signs","tag-mothers-of-reading","tag-origin-of-greek-alphabet","tag-phoenician-script","tag-proto-greek","tag-segmental-writing","tag-semitic-alphalbets","tag-syllabic-writing","tag-vowel","tag-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsystemsabc.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}