The Origin of the Greek Alphabet: A New Perspective

Download or read book The Origin of the Greek Alphabet: A New Perspective written by YAN Pui-chi (甄沛之) and published by 商務印書館（香港）有限公司,聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a whole new perspective on the history of the birth of the Greek alphabet. It also aims to give a clear account of how ancient Greek alphabetic writing could naturally evolve into the world’s first segmental writing system, in which vowel and consonant letters are used to represent vowels and consonants respectively. This book should be of great interest to linguists and phoneticians, especially those taking an interest in the world’s writing systems. General readers who are curious about the genesis of the Greek alphabet are also likely to find the subject of the book interesting.