Re: Invention of the Alphabet

Dennis wrote:
>
> I just updated my website on the Invention of the Alphabet:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/alphabet/index.html
>
> although it's still a bit ragged. I made use of recent
> remarks made here. I would appreciate any comments!

You seem not to have ever read anything I've written, or you couldn't
include the spurious commonplace "The Greek language cannot be
represented nearly as well without vowels as the Semitic languages can,
so it may have been done out of necessity." If that were true, how would
it be possible for Persian (and many other Iranian languages) to be
written with varieties of Aramaic scripts?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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