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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
Did the Greek alphabet originally have lower case letters?
The Greek alphabet did not originally have lower case letters, neither did it have accent marks, nor did it have spaces between letters. In fact, originally the Greeks originally used the Phoenician Alphabet. Then the Greeks used three different Alphabets for the three different Greek languages or dialects. Finally Alexander the Great united them into Koine Greek. Punctuation was added when the great library in Alexandria was built. The Greek alphabet as we know it was created by Erasmus in the early 1500s.
What is the greek letter for Alpha?
Σ (capital) σ ς ( the third is only put when s is used at the end of a word)
In the greek alphabet why is there two o's and two e's?
Use Epsilon, the first E, when you need the sound as in "get".
Then use Eta if you want the sound as in "scene".
As for the O's, do Omicron for the "got" sound, and Omega for the o sound as in "home".
What are different ways to type alphabetical letters?
If you are referring to keyboards, there are two main standards for the Latin Alphabet:
- QWERTY
- Dvorak
- Colemak
- JCUKEN
- Neo
For other languages, there are theses QWERTY-based standards:
- QWERTZ
- AZERTY
- QZERTY
How many letters were are the Latin alphabet?
The Latin alphabet varies in length, according to the language that uses it. If you mean the Latin version of the Latin Alphabet, it has 23 letters.
The alphabet devised by two Greek monks was call the what alphabet?
cyrillic
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The two monks were two brothers from Thessaloniki, Cyril and Methodius, missionaries for the Orthodox Church, later canonized and given the epithet isapostolos (iso-apostole :equal to the apostoles).
Where did the Greek alphabet originate?
It was inspired by the Phoenician alphabet, around the 8th Century BCE.
Charles Bradlee is the publisher of the alphabet song and it was first published in Boston and given the title "ABC's"
Do any capital letters of the alphabet have diagonal lines of symmetry?
a b c d e h i k m o t u v w x y
Who did the Greeks adopt the alphabet from?
The modern English alphabet consists of 26 letters and is derived from the Latin alphabet:
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They did not actually invent it, but improved upon the ancient Phoenician alphabet and brought it into wider usage.
Which alphabets are not there in the numbers 1-100?
There are no alphabets in any numbers. alphabets contain only letters (not numbers).
What does alphabet wheel mean in children's literature?
I need to know how does the alphabet wheel relate to phonem blending for young children.
Where does the expression OK come from and what do the letters stand for?
There are mixed theories on the origin of OK.
Here are some views:
OK comes from Greek "Olla Kalla" which means "all good". For a long time, the favorite theory was that it was a campaign slogan for Martin Van Buren, nicknamed "Old Kinder hook" because his home town was Kinderhook, N.Y. But the most popular theory nowadays is that it stands for "oll korrect". Apparently, in the 1830s, people thought it was funny to misspell words on purpose. "All correct" was changed to "oll korrect", and then abbreviated "o.k."
Many pages have been written about the origin of OK, but still no one knows for sure.
OK may be the abbreviated form of an Afro-America word spelled okeh or okay.
It is not known for sure. The first recorded use of it in print is listed as 1839 in the Oxford English Dictionary. In this use it is shortened from "all correct." It was used in 1840 as part of an election slogan for Old Kinderhook. However, it seems clear that it was being used orally prior to this. Some suggest it comes from the Choctaw word oke, meaning "it is." Others suggest it comes from the French au quai. Still others contend it comes from a West African language that slaves from that region used. It is one of the few words rather universally understood in all languages.in other words country style the phrase O.K. means ol'right
OK means agreed, understood if someone asks you a question telling you to do something. If someone asks if you are OK, they either mean, are you fine, hurt, etc or they are asking if you are fine in the head, are you crazy or something.
During World War I and II, Some say that O.K. originated in Zero kills which meant all is well. Zero- 0 , Kills - K. They would hang the Boards up when planes would fly back in is what my Grandfather told me. but it also originated in England as well supposedly. Yahoo Answers has an Answer for this and it was on the Front Page. you can do a yahoo search on yahoo Answers
Oklahoma.
What do the letters RSVP stand for?
It's French, and the literal meaning is: "répondez s'il vous plaît", which roughly translates to, "Please tell me if you plan to come", or more accurately, "please respond".
