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

On Dec 18, 4:05 pm, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Dec 18, 3:56 pm, Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 18 Dec 2007 15:31:45 -0500 schrieb Herman Rubin:
In article <c64c8d8f-b2a2-4a15-94da-ed54cc697...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

At least several hundred.

Japanese kana has 50. Old Persian has even less.

Linear B has 87 to 200 depending on how you count them.-

Not syllabic signs. To the 87 syllabic signs (the number is so large
because there are five notated vowels) are added quite a few
"logograms" (better: ideograms), which are never used in writing the
language.
.

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