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History of the alphabet
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Alphabetic writing – is a writing system in which glyphs called letters generally correspond to individual sounds in a language, as opposed to symbols representing syllables or whole words.
Greek alphabet on ancient black-figure pottery. There is a digamma but no ksi or omega. The letter phi upright in the photograph is missing a stroke a
Greek alphabet on ancient black-figure pottery. There is a digamma but no ksi or omega. The letter phi upright in the photograph is missing a stroke and looks like the omicron Ο, but on the other side of the bottom it is a full Φ.
Etruscan writing, the beginning of the writing with the Latin alphabet
Etruscan writing, the beginning of the writing with the Latin alphabet
Proto-Sinaitic script
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The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30–40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two inscri
Proto-Sinaitic inscription #346, the first published photograph of the script. The line running from the upper left to lower right may read mt l bʿlt
Proto-Sinaitic inscription #346, the first published photograph of the script. The line running from the upper left to lower right may read mt l bʿlt '... to the Lady'
Traces of the 16 and 12 characters of the two Wadi el-Hol inscriptions
Traces of the 16 and 12 characters of the two Wadi el-Hol inscriptions