Mysteries of the Alphabet by Marc-Alain Ouaknin
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Mysteries of the Alphabet
Summary
Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.
Mysteries of the Alphabet Summary
Table of Contents
Part I Origin and evolution: brief history of writing; pictograms, ideograms and phonograms; the turquoise woman - Protosinaic pictograms; the example of the letter Aleph; how Aleph became Alpha. Part II The alphabet. Part III The revolution of archaeography.
Additional information
GOR001703586
9780789205230
0789205238
Mysteries of the Alphabet by Marc-Alain Ouaknin
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
19981101
384
N/A
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