Re: How did the Semitic Alphabet become the Greek Alphabet so quickly?

From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:13:27 -0800 (PST)

On Dec 18, 3:56 pm, Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am 18 Dec 2007 15:31:45 -0500 schrieb Herman Rubin:

How
many signs do you imagine are involved in a syllabary?

At least several hundred.

Japanese kana has 50. Old Persian has even less.

39, but it's not a full syllabary.
.

References:
- How old is the Greek Alphabet?
  - From: Jack Linthicum
- Re: How did the Semitic Alphabet become the Greek Alphabet so quickly?
  - From: Peter T. Daniels
- Re: How did the Semitic Alphabet become the Greek Alphabet so quickly?
  - From: Herman Rubin
- Re: How did the Semitic Alphabet become the Greek Alphabet so quickly?
  - From: Peter T. Daniels
- Re: How did the Semitic Alphabet become the Greek Alphabet so quickly?
  - From: Herman Rubin
- Re: How did the Semitic Alphabet become the Greek Alphabet so quickly?
  - From: Joachim Pense

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