CLA 1101 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
16 May 2017
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One of the most important events in world history was the creation of a greek alphabet that is, the copying and adaption of the phoenician alphabet to fit the greek language , circa 800 b. c. This event brought the relatively new technology of alphabetic writing to its first indo-european language (greek), thus opening up other languages of europe to alphabetic writing. Soon the greeks" alphabet would be copied and adapted by the non-greek etruscans of italy (circa 700. ); then the etruscan alphabet would be copied and adapted by the romans (circa 600 b. c. Eventually among many other branchings-off the roman alphabet would be adapted for writing old. Today we use an adapted roman alphabet to write english (also french, etc. ). Our alphabet is the grown-up grandchild of the greek alphabet, and about half of our capital letters have shapes and sounds exactly like their greek forebears.
