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The Development Of Alphabet - 2500 BC To The Phonecians by Eric Hartwell
2500 BC- The Southwestern Asian Indus valley
The Indus script, written by officials of the Indus valley, was used mainly to assist the bureaucrats in administration. These seals were carved in soapstone or steatite, the center of which depicts an animal or yogic-like postured huma form above and around it formal symbols, short lines or other animal forms. The significance and interpretations of these thousands of seals are unknown but the supposition is for trade and accounting purposes. These seals have also been mass-produced from molds on religious and ritual objects.
1600 BC- Chinese Characters Develop
Ancient Chinese script evolved independently from other early civilizations with a profound set of characters, still in use today. Chinese script is non-phonetic, making it possible for officials from different areas of the vast empire able to communicate with each other through writing, although their speech is not understood. Japanese script was devised from ancient Chinese characters.
The Phonecians influence the Greek alphabet
The Phoenicians are credited with the development of a system of writing that can be written without vast knowledge and memorization of symbolic characters. This phonetic writing developed in the 2nd millennium BC creating the possibility of a literate community. The Semitic language, adopted by Phoenicians and Palestinians and includes examples in Aramaic and Hebrew. This system of writing consonants and leaving out vowels is still in use today in the Semitic language of Arabic. The Greeks added vowels to their writing system in the 8th century BC and developed an alphabet of twenty-four letters. The Greek word 'alphabet' comes from 'alpha' and 'beta', the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet. The Romans developed Latin from the Greek alphabet, used throughout the Roman Empire, spreading throughout Europe and becomes the standard for many systems of writing. Because of the simplicity of this system of writing and the more portable materials papyrus, leaves and wooden tablature, written correspondence is initiated into everyday life.
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