The History of the Alphabet

A blog post on I Love Typography details the captivating history of the alphabet, showing the development of Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics, Proto-Sinaitic Script, Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan, Latin, and the eventual development of more modern Uncial, Gothic, and Roman scripts. The post includes some really nice illustrations and diagrams. Informative and easy to understand.

Read the post here: The origins of abc

HT: Paleojudaica

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3 Responses to The History of the Alphabet

  1. Interesting.

    Any thoughts about Edenics? I find a lot of interesting stuff there, but it does feel a little “out there”.

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