how the letter A was discovered
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▪Well, first let me make this clear. You probably mean the writing system. Alphabet indicates the Roman alphabet consisting of 26 letters in the case of English.
▪No single human being invented the writing system. Just as no one invented human language. Both of them gradually evolved over many millennia.
▪Initially, some sort of graphic representation of whatever appealed to the aesthetic senses of people must have been made. That explains why we find pictures of deer or boars and other animals. Maybe, that representation could have served the purpose of information-transfer too, either contemporaneously, or to the next generation. This was the Pictographic stage. Later the symbols must have come to represent ideas, which produced Ideographic writing. WE do not know for certain whether all of this took place in the same sequence, but we are sure that Pictographic writing preceded every other kind.
▪The development of Logographic writing was another stage. The writing system of Chinese language is illustrative of logographic writing system. In the next stage, a symbol that was a representation of a word came to be associated with the pronunciation of that word, and hence the sounds. New symbols were invented, and writing systems developed in various ways, sometimes to represent sequences of sounds ( Syllabic writing), and sometimes to represent single sounds.
▪Finally, the Greeks, for the first time, created the kind of alphabet we are using today, using separate symbols for vowels and consonants.
▪The development of writing system may be said to be a progress from having thousands of symbols as in Logographic system to very few symbols as in Alphabetic system.
hope it helps you.......
▪Well, first let me make this clear. You probably mean the writing system. Alphabet indicates the Roman alphabet consisting of 26 letters in the case of English.
▪No single human being invented the writing system. Just as no one invented human language. Both of them gradually evolved over many millennia.
▪Initially, some sort of graphic representation of whatever appealed to the aesthetic senses of people must have been made. That explains why we find pictures of deer or boars and other animals. Maybe, that representation could have served the purpose of information-transfer too, either contemporaneously, or to the next generation. This was the Pictographic stage. Later the symbols must have come to represent ideas, which produced Ideographic writing. WE do not know for certain whether all of this took place in the same sequence, but we are sure that Pictographic writing preceded every other kind.
▪The development of Logographic writing was another stage. The writing system of Chinese language is illustrative of logographic writing system. In the next stage, a symbol that was a representation of a word came to be associated with the pronunciation of that word, and hence the sounds. New symbols were invented, and writing systems developed in various ways, sometimes to represent sequences of sounds ( Syllabic writing), and sometimes to represent single sounds.
▪Finally, the Greeks, for the first time, created the kind of alphabet we are using today, using separate symbols for vowels and consonants.
▪The development of writing system may be said to be a progress from having thousands of symbols as in Logographic system to very few symbols as in Alphabetic system.
hope it helps you.......
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