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| | Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician became the ancestor of or inspiration for all later alphabets; the first alphabet in the narrower sense was the Greek alphabet. | | | Proponents of this theory hold that the development of alphabetic (as distinct to other types of) writing systems has made a significant impact on "Western" thinking and development because it introduced a new level of abstraction, analysis, and classification. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
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| | Greek alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Greek also introduced three new consonants, appended to the end of the alphabet as they were developed. | | | The Greek alphabet originated as a modification of the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to the Gothic, Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Coptic, and possibly the Armenian alphabets, as well as the Latin alphabet, as documented in History of the alphabet. | | | The Coptic alphabet is the Greek alphabet, augmented with several new letters derived from Demotic, and it is still used today. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet
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| | Art21 - The Alphabet Synthesis Machine (Introduction) |
| | Whereas the ASM uses a physical simulation in tandem with an evolution algorithm to produce "handwritten" forms, Matt Chisholm's "Alphabet Soup" project uses a shape grammar based on the structure of the Roman/Cyrillic/Greek/IPA alphabets in order to synthesize novel "punch-cut" glyphs. | | | The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is comprised of two software systems: an interactive client-side applet, which allows users to create and evolve their abstract letterforms, and a server-side archiving system which stores the user creations as downloadable TrueType fonts. | | | Précis: The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one's own imaginary civilizations. |
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http://alphabet.tmema.org
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| | ALPHABET |
| | As the forms of the alphabet settled down and as any awareness of articulatory origin of the characters was lost, the alignment of the letter was systematised and perhaps in some cases adjusted to increase the distinctiveness of the characters, for example, between Greek lambda and gamma. | | | One approach is in terms of the practical problems faced by the originator of the alphabet: another would examine the archaeological record; a third might focus on the perceptual process by which the alphabet makes rapid reading possible. | | | The question is whether alphabetic writing in its original or any of its traditional forms was in fact designed to function as a system of 'visible speech'... |
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http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/alphabet.htm
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| | Phoenician Alphabet |
| | Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets. | | | The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C. This method of writing, later adopted by the Greeks, is the ancestor of the modern Roman alphabet. | | | The simple reason for that was the fact that there were no other efficient writing systems other than Phoenician at that time. |
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http://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
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| | Phoenician Alphabet Essay @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power) |
| | The Greek alphabet developed from the Phoenician alphabet. | | | The Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets are derived from the Greek alphabet. | | | The Greeks kept most of the sounds of the symbols, but used some letters which represented sounds that did not exist in Greek to represent vowels. |
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http://higherpower.org/encyclopedia/Phoenician_alphabet
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| | Latin alphabet - Psychology Central |
| | It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy. | | | In the course of its history, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in languages previously written with this alphabet, and therefore extensions were created as needed. | | | However, these glyphs are not always considered independent letters of the alphabet. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Roman_alphabet
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| | Learn more about Alphabet in the online encyclopedia. |
| | The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. | | | Among alphabets, one may distinguish the older abjads that only recorded consonants, and the newer alphabet of the Greek type called simply alphabet and the abugida. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/a/al/alphabet.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Alphabet - Encyclopedia Article |
| | The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. | | | Among alphabets, one may distinguish the older abjads that only recorded consonants, and the newer alphabet of the Greek type called simply alphabet and the abugida. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/a/alphabet.html
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| | Learn more about Alphabet in the online encyclopedia. |
| | The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. | | | Among alphabets, one may distinguish the older abjads that only recorded consonants, and the newer alphabet of the Greek type called simply alphabet and the abugida. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/a/al/alphabet.html
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| | Learn more about Alphabet in the online encyclopedia. |
| | The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. | | | Among alphabets, one may distinguish the older abjads that only recorded consonants, and the newer alphabet of the Greek type called simply alphabet and the abugida. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/a/al/alphabet.html
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| | Latin alphabet - definition of Latin alphabet in Encyclopedia |
| | The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean. | | | For multilingual situations with no one preferred language or alphabet, the Unicode Collation Algorithm can be used. | | | The Latin alphabet is also used for many Austronesian languages, including Tagalog and the other languages of the Philippines, and the official Malaysian and Indonesian languages, replacing earlier Arabic and indigenous Brahmic alphabets. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Latin_alphabet
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| | alphabet. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic all have their own alphabets. | | | An exotic modern system is the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah, suggested by, but not based on, the Roman alphabet. | | | The most important writing of India is the Devanagari, an alphabet with syllabic features; this, invented probably for Sanskrit, is the source of a number of Asian scripts. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/al/alphabet.html
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| | Sardis Intro |
| | When I finished my Lydian decipherment and reviewed my basic approach I decided to check my decipherment of the Greek alphabet inscriptions more carefully for possible errors. | | | Further examinations of the Sardis inscriptions showed that there are also similar words in the Lydian and Greek alphabet parts of the inscriptions. | | | First, the original texts (which are without vowels) were transcribed in current Ukrainian alphabet. |
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http://home.att.net/~oko/sardis/s-intro.htm
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| | ALPHABETS |
| | The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. | | | Among alphabets, one may distinguish the older abjads that only recorded consonants, and the newer alphabet of the Greek type called simply alphabet and the abugida. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. |
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http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/ALPHABETS
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| | Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : L |
| | LanguageGroup Kit The Production First Software LanguageGroup kit implements 1-byte access for Latin (Roman), Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets of Production First Software PostScript fonts by enabling the selection of a number of additional 1-byte and 2-byte codepages, covering different languages and minority cultures. | | | (See contextual processing.) But as of 1999, there were no operating systems which provide optional automatic ligature substitution for Latin-based alphabets or alphabets of other scripts (Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Old Hungarian) using ligatures. | | | A numeral used in, say, the Latin script is considered alphabetic, while a numeral represented in Japanese can be either an alphabetic or an ideographic numeral. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/profirst/l.htm
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Alphabet - Encyclopedia Article |
| | The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. | | | The first alphabet that has been recovered was developed in Ugarit (in modern Syria), about 1500 BCE, initially to represent the sounds of a Semitic language using cuneiform. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/a/alphabet.html
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| | Learn more about Greek alphabet in the online encyclopedia. |
| | Greek also introduced three new consonants, appended to the end of the alphabet as they were developed. | | | The most notable change, compared to its predecessor, the Phoenician alphabet, is the introduction of vowels, without which Greek — unlike Phoenician — would be unintelligible. | | | The Greeks were the first people who generalized the alphabetic designation of vowels. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/g/gr/greek_alphabet.html
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| | Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy. | | | For multilingual situations with no one preferred language or alphabet, the Unicode Collation Algorithm can be used. | | | In the course of its history, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in languages previously written with this alphabet, and therefore diacritics and new letters were created as needed. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet
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| | Latin alphabet - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy. | | | The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean. | | | The Latin alphabet is also used for many Austronesian languages, including Tagalog and the other languages of the Philippines, and the official Malaysian and Indonesian languages, replacing earlier Arabic and indigenous Brahmic alphabets. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/latin_alphabet.htm
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| | Online Encyclopedia - alphabet |
| | The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. | | | An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters --basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language. |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Alphabet.html
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| | Characters' encoding |
| | Polish alphabet, at the first look very similar to the latin one when compared with, for example greek or russian alphabets, contains in fact eighteen special letters with tails. | | | As a result, one emerging issue is now too many different hardware and software standards for polish alphabet letters. | | | Primary underestimation of this fact in early stages of software or hardware development projects for the polish market might have brougth up unexpected rise of related costs in the later stages, and because of that such projects could not be accomplished. |
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http://www.eurofresh.se/comments.htm
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| | Country Information |
| | Consequently, the vocabulary of the Mongolian language has become richer through word formation in the native language, through the modification and expansion of the meaning of words, and through the borrowing of words and expressions of ancient Greek and Latin origin via Russian. | | | As a result of the formation of anew system of terminology, the national language of science and technology has emerged and is developing on the basis of the general Mongolian literary language. | | | The history of the Mongolian language is long and complex. |
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http://www.mongolia.org.hk/country_info-1-12.htm
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| | AncientScripts.com: Greek |
| | The Greek alphabet was also the basis for Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Coptic scripts among others. | | | Eventually the Ionian alphabet was adopted in all Greek-speaking states, but before that happened, the Euboean variant was carried to the Italic peninsula and adopted by Etruscan and eventually the Romans. | | | From the shape of the letters, it is clear that the Greeks adopted the alphabet the Phoenician script, mostly like during the late 9th century BCE. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html
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| | Gematrical Values of the Arabic Alphabet-Mathematical Miracle of the Quran. The original site Mathematical Miracle of the Quran, Authorized English Translation of the Quran by Dr. Rashad Khalifa, Quran Translations, code-19-proofs-koran |
| | In any case, it certainly predates the writing down of Arabic, as can be seen by comparison of Hebrew (Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth) and Greek (Alpha Beta Gamma Delta). | | | The gematrical values of the alphabets are not occult or hidden values but well known since the introduction of the languages and were born out of need not out of the desire to predict a future event or an occult meaning. | | | Nowadays the Arabic alphabet does not follow the sequence a-b-j-d, but rather the order: A-B-T-Th-J-H.-Kh-D (the basic shapes of the letters A-B-J-D without their diacritical dots do, however, occur in that order, insofar as T and Th are distinguished from B only by dots, and the H. and Kh from the J only by dots). |
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http://www.submission.org/miracle/gematrical.html
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| | The Lowest Protocol -- Plain HTML Version |
| | Introduction to the Greek alphabet: the letters, their name and Modern Greek transliteration. | | | This ancestral layer has not been forgotten by the citizens of the upper levels: the Internet has plenty information about alphabets, syllabaries, ideograms, logograms, pictograms... | | | Phonetic alphabets fonts from Yamada (PC and Mac). |
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http://www.brianzaest.it/SCUOLE/gonzaga/alfabet/epurehtm.html
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| | Learn Assyrian (Syriac-Aramaic) OnLine |
| | To say modern aramaic or modern syriac, you must be consistent and say modern hebrew, modern english, modern greek, etc. for all languages follow the law of evolution. | | | It is the root language of Hebrew, Arabic, and the alphabet for Greek, Farsi (Persian), Georgian, Turkish (uighur script) which also begat the Mongolean script.)) Aramaic replaced our ancient brethren's language, Akkadian (the oldest semetic language) around 1000 B.C.. | | | .BMP background file - for windows of the alphabet. |
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http://www.learnassyrian.com/aramaic
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| | Pronunciation of Balkan Languages |
| | Bulgarian is a Slavic language, closely related to Serbo-Croatian, and written like Serbian in a Cyrillic (Greek-derived) alphabet. | | | We normally encounter words and names in modern Greek only after they have been transliterated from the Greek alphabet into our Latin alphabet, and much of the work of making them pronounceable for English-speakers is done by the transliteration. | | | We normally encounter Bulgarian words and names only after they have been transliterated into our Latin alphabet, and most of the work of making them pronounceable for English-speakers is done by the transliteration. |
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http://dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu/materials/ceelang.htm
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