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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.
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What is the over the e in fiancee?
It is an accent mark, it this case it's an E with an acute accent.
How did pioneer students learn their alphabet?
Repetition. Usually the teacher or parent would write the letter on the blackboard and the child would repeat it on a slate. Sometimes wood scraps or even the back of a shovel were used. In colonial times it was common to have a horn book, a wooden paddle on which a piece of paper with the alphabet, numbers and words were written. It was covered with a thin sheet of transparent horn to protect the paper from grubby hands.
Why is the letter Y very unique in the English Alphabet?
The letter Y is so unique in the English Alphabet because Y is the only semi-vowel, which is the only letter that's a versatile speech sound and can be both a vowel and a consonant. The rest of the letters usually can only be either one of the speech sounds and can't usually be both of them.
When we talk about vowels, we say: The vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y.
We added that phrase about the Y thing because Y can sometimes behave like a vowel, but not always.
When we talk about speech sounds, we usually say this: 5 vowels, 21 consonants
Since Y is a semi-vowel, if include this Y thing, we can say this: 6 vowels, 21 consonants
To eliminate the consonant Y point, we can say this: 6 vowels, 20 consonants
To show the overlapping point, we can say this: 5 vowels, 1 semi-vowel, 20 consonants
To completely eliminate the Y semi-vowel thing, we can say this: 5 vowels, 20 consonants
To show the average point with the semi-vowel Y, we can say this: 5.5 vowels, 20.5 consonants
This is a discrete data, therefore it's quite unsuitable to use decimals because we can't break the numbers down into decimals by counting them. When you count something, things can come in different sizes. If it's a quantitative data, then it's more quite suitable to use decimals because we can't break the numbers down into decimals when measuring. However, this is just for showing average, so using a decimal in this discrete data is still fine.
To answer the question, the letter Y is so unique in the English Alphabet because it's the only semi-vowel, which is the only letter that can be both of the speech sounds.
What alphabet was the model for our alphabet?
We use the Latin alphabet, which was based on the Greek Alphabet, which was inspired by the Hebrew Alphabet.
Why are there so many different alphabets?
There is so many different alphabets because there is so many different languages. Every language has a different alphabet. Even the English alphabet and the Spanish alphabet are different, even though not by much.
Did any Africans invent alphabetic writing?
No pure alphabets, but there are some abugidas that were invented by African cultures, for example, the Amharic abugida.
How many angles are there in alphabet 'v'?
There are two angles in the letter V.
An acute angle (internal) and a reflex angle (external).
What is the writing system of English called?
We use the Latin alphabet, which was derived from the Greek alphabet, which was derived from the Phoenician alphabet that derived from cuneiform which derived from pictographs (hieroglyphs)
Latin alphabet for English: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Latin alphabet for Latin: ABCDEFZHIKLMNOPQRSTVWX
Greek alphabet: ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
No. The English alphabet is as follows:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
When people sing the alphabet, we say "x y AND z" to let the person (to whom we are singing) know that the alphabet is over at "z".
How are the Egyptian alphabet and the Arabic alphabet alike?
There is no such thing as an Egyptian alphabet, so you cannot compare the two. Ancient Egyptian used thousands of pictures that represented ideas as well as consonants. The Arabic alphabet consists of 28 consonants.
There are no similarities, except that Egyptian was occasionally written right to left, just as Arabic is.
The Phoenician alphabet was probably derived from and would become the basis for?
The Phoenician alphabet was the basis for the Hebrew alphabet as well as the Greek alphabet.
The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BCE. Before that, the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script.
What is missing o0ut of the alphabet order?
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abc"""""""""""""def""""""""""""""ghi'''''''''''''''''''''jkl'''''''mno'''''''''''pqr''''''''''''''''''stu''''''''''''''''''''''''''vwx ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''y what's missing abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abc"""""""""""""def""""""""""""""ghi'''''''''''''''''''''jkl'''''''mno'''''''''''pqr''''''''''''''''''stu''''''''''''''''''''''''''vwx ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''y what's missing
Do all alphabets start with the letter a?
No. Some alphabets, such as Arabic and Hebrew, don't even have the letter A.
Here are some starting letters of alphabets that do not start with A:
Hebrew = א
arabic = ا
Syriac = ܐ
Korean = ㄱ
Which alphabet letters are convex polygons?
A convex polygon is defined as a polygon whose interior is a convex set.
The definition of a convex set is that for any two points x, y from the set the line connecting them must not leave the set (the polygon, in our case).
For instance the letter I (capital i) is a simple rectangle in many fonts, which is convex (pick any two points in a rectangle and connect them, you will never leave the rectangle).
The character T (capital t) is composed of two rectangles in many fonts, which is not convex at all (just pick a point at the top left and one at the bottom center, the line connecting them will leave the shape).
Now you should be able to see that almost no characters are convex, the following can be eliminated right away:
- all fonts with serifs: the little details attached to the line endings cause problems
- all characters that consist of multiple shapes (i, j, !, %, etc.), you can always pick point x in the first shape, point y in the second shape and the connecting line will offend the convexity criterion
- all characters with holes in them (a, b, d, o, etc.), simply chose a point "left and right" of the hole.
And here is a list of commonly used characters and symbols that are convex at least in some fonts:
- I (capital i)
- l (lowercase L)
- - (minus)
- _ (underscore)
- . (dot)
- /, \ (slash, backslash)
- `, ´, ' (gravis, acute, tick)
- , (comma)
Obsolete sixth letter of the early greek alphabet?
Digamma. This obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet was primarily used as a Greek numeral.
Why did king Sejong write the alphabet?
King Sejong, along with the Hall of Worthies (noteworthy scholars during the time period), created the Korean Alphabet Hangul. At that time, every developed East Asian state wrote in Chinese characters, but most commoners (who were usually famers or laborers) did not have the time to learn to read and write in such a complex writing system. As a result, Hangul (an alphabet) was created as a means of expanding literacy throughout the kingdom of Joseon (Korea).
What number is A in computer binary?
That depends on which computer character set you are talking about as there are several (and there were many more in the early days, before things were standardized).
A few examples are given in the following table:
Character Set Letter "A" ASCII 1000001 EBCDIC 11000001 Fieldata 000110 UNIVAC I 010100 IBM 1620 0100 0001 IBM 1401 110001 IBM 650 01 01000 00 00001 Hollerith 100100000000 Baudot 00011
Why is the letter W the widest letter?
Probably because it is made out of two letters (V) one next to each other.
