JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mater Lectionis, Grapheme, Vowel Length
Document Summary
Everything since quiz 1 to this lecture. A list of the sections that we need to know from the textbook will be posted. Choose either hebrew or arabic to study for the quiz (look at grapheme tables and practice sheets to be posted online) Don"t have to know the system by heart. Transliterate from abjad to romanization (won"t have to write hebrew or arabic) Duenos inscriptions written around pottery figurines (one of the earliest inscriptions in old. Not all phonemic distinctions were written (vowel length = not indicated) Same graphemes used for glides as well as vowels. Didn"t borrow /z/ from greek because they didn"t have that letter. Borrowed greek alphabet but wrote it right to left. Conquered by romans who adapted their scripts to write latin to write it left to right. Marsiliana abecedary: one of the earliest alphabet lists found in old italic (700 bce) Had some greek graphemes that roman didn"t.
