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Alphabet History
The history of the alphabet began in Ancient Egypt. The first consonantal alphabet was found in 2,000 BCE to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt. It was influenced by the principles of the Egyptian writing script.
707 Questions
Is there a letter missing from the greek alphabet and the English alphabet?
No there are no missing letters from the Latin Alphabet for English. There are also no letters missing from the Greek Alphabet. Both alphabets are in tact.
The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker.
How was the alphabet created and who created it?
The alphabet was created as a sort of short hand fromhieroglyphics. Instead of the characters representing words they were used to represent sounds vowels not included) and the words were concatenated collections of them. The inventors are usually consider to be Semitics from the middle east most commonly attributed to Phoenicians however there is certain evidence that they might be Hebrews. The earliest known written phonetic sentences are in the Siana desert carved on the wall of a cave by a Hebrew slave praying for release.
What is the 11th letter of the modern alphabet?
J is the tenth letter of the alphabet as it is used in English. Some other languages use additional letters.
Does the alphabet have 26 letters?
Absolutely not. Each one has a different amount of letters. English uses the Latin alphabet. Hawaiian has a 12 letter alphabet and so on. Some languages such as Russian, Hebrew, Arabic use alphabets with different characters from the Latin alphabet.
How do you write the first letter of the German alphabet?
: The German alphabet is pretty much the same as the English (A, B, C, etc). The only difference occurs in the "Umlaute" (literally translated "other-sounds"), which are "Ä", "Ö" and "Ü" and are added after the "Z".
Who created the US English alphabet?
No one person. It evolved over thousands of years from many sources. Look under ALPHABET in the Brittanica or any other good encyclopedia for a full history.
Answer
There is no such thing as a purely "US" English alphabet, other than perhaps the US pronunciation of the last letter, Z, zed. The present English alphabet has been in use since Shakespeare's time (there were 3 letters used in Old English which survived to around Shakespeare's time, in some cases dropped when printing presses were introduced, and the source of the incorrect "Ye" word ).
Where did the roman alphabet originate?
It is generally held that the Latins adopted the Cumae alphabet, a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy. Roman legend credited the introduction to one Evander, son of the Sibyl, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan war, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale. From the Cumae alphabet, the Etruscan alphabet was derived and the Latins eventually adopted 21 of the original 26 Etruscan letters.
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The Greek alphabet came from the ancient levent alphabet.
How many letters are in the American alphabet?
There are 26/twenty-six letters in the American alphabet. These are the letters.The letters are as followed: Capital: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Lower: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz These are the letters for the American alphabet.
How many letters were there in the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet is the oldest verified consonantal alphabet, dating to approximately 1200 BCE. The alphabet was used by the ancient civilization of Phoenicia and through their traveling and colonization came to widespread use. The Phoenician alphabet consisted of 22 letters, many of which form the basis of the greek alphabet and therefore the Latin and English alphabets currently in use.
What do the letters LLP stand for in the Legal Profession?
I believe that LLP would be Limited Liability Practice. Same as PC at the end of a Law firm means Professional Corporation. or LLC-Limited Liability Corporation.... This simply shows the public, based on various state laws, that the Law firm has been incorporated.
Can you recite the international phonetic Alphabet?
There are two very different things called "the international phonetic alphabet." The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet is a set of words used in place of the names of letters to facilitate spelling words or arbitrary sequences of letters and numbers such as serial numbers.
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quito
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu
Also, the digit 9 is spoken as "niner" to reduce confusion with the digit 5.
Yes it's obviously just an O with a stupid little tail. Stupid Q.
What month comes last alphabetically?
September is the last month when the months are arranged alphabetically. Alphabetically the 12 months are April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November, October and September.
Runic is a system of writing used mainly for inscribing on stone and other hard materials symbols called runes.
When was first language spoken -- 6000 BC?
Linguists refer to the first language ever spoken as Proto-World, but it was spoken long before 6000BCE. It is also called Proto-Sapiens, and Proto-Human.
The current theory states it was spoken between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago.
A I U E O
KA KI KU KE KO
SA SHI SU SE SO
TA CHI TSU TE TO
NA NI NU NE NO
HA HI FU HE HO
MA MI MU ME MO
YA YU YO
RA RI RU RE RO
WA WO NN
What country invented surfing?
Many people believe that surfing was invented by Hawaiians, historical documents have disproved this . It was actually invented in Polynesia according to the records of 18th century sailors, some people claim it was invented in ancient South America first, this type of surfing was not the same as what we know as surfing today however and has not been conclusively proven at all, only claimed.
