Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Alphabetic Writing


  • A set of written symbols which each represent a single type of sound;
  • The origins of the writing systems of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew;
  • largely consist of consonant symbols;
  • Early Greeks took the alphabetizing process a stage further by also using separate symbols to represent the vowel sounds as distinct entities.

................................................................................................................................................

See also:

No comments:

Post a Comment