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It initially began with 21 letters but after conquests and time it evolved to the modern day 26. With the alphabet, history could now be recorded rather then memorised and would be fundamental in preserving human knowledge.
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Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An alphabet is a standardized set of letters — basic written symbols or graphemes — each of which roughly represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the p...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
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Cyrillic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cyrillic (pronounced /sɨˈrɪlɪk/ ) script writing system is an alphabet developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in 9th century, and used in the Slavic national languages of Russian, Bulgari...
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We all learn our ABC’s as children, but do we know where the alphabet comes from? We call it the Latin alphabet, but then why does it have a Greek name? The alphabet wasn’t invented by the Greeks either. Where does it come from? ... The Origins and History of the Number System...
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The Romans also changed the alphabet a little bit and brought it to England. ... It may be one of the most important invention in the history of the world.
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The first graphic images that evolved in our Western system of writing was pictograms. Pictograms were generally simple shapes which represented a basic vocabulary of objects and ideas. Some basic pictogram images included those to ... As the need to express more words grew, ... As typography evolved Phonograms were used.
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What made this the beginning of the alphabet, and not Egyptian hieroglyphs themselves? The result is simple as the Greek letter's name alpha. The word alpha in Greek does not mean anything at all, but in the original West Semitic form 'aleph it carried the meaning of "ox".
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How did we get the alphabet? It was a long process, spanning thousands of years. It is a fun story, beginning in the early days of civilization. ... • The Greek Alphabet; • History of the Written Letters; • The Sumerian Language; • A History of the Roman Alphabet...
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The Phoenician Alphabet was adopted by the early Greeks who earned their place in alphabetic history by symbolizing the vowels. Therefore, the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek scripts all came from the Phoenician. The Greek alphabet led to Latin and Cyrillic.
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