The History of the Alphabet 

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05:46 the Eubeans (from Eubea 🇬🇷 Island, modern Greek "Evvia" ) created their colonyes in the west, southern Italy🇮🇹. In Eubea there is the city if Kyme, they founded, not far from the bay of Naples (another Greek town) a village in 740 b. C. with the same name Kyme/Cuma, the village I'm writing from now. 😀

Fun fact: the runic alphabets used by the various germanic people before being displaced by the Latin alphabet were also based on the Phoenician alphabet. A long lost cousin, you might say.

Thanks for the post, it was a good basic intro however left out (amongst other things) the role of Egyptian cursive.

I lead trips to some of the Proto-sinaitic script. Once in landscape and familar with the ethnic group there and history of the places around the script, you realize quickly how and who and why the script evolved in this place to launch humanity to new heights of knowledge accumulation

The Anglo-Saxon alphabet had a letter or two that fell out of use. The "TH" in "the" was once written much like an upper-case "Y": the "Ye Olde Inn" sign was really saying "The Olde Inn"! Did cuneiform writing play a role?

7:20 I find it hilarious that the Romans were literally just screaming at eachother for a few thousand years till lowercase came along lmao

So when there was only upper case letters is that why there were so many wars cause everyone thought everyone was hollering at everyone.

I would love to hear about slavic languages, they're fascinating nowadays.

The chart at the end has many inaccuracies. For one, the phonecian row has two letters out of order, and one letter missing: jot while the letter that the video "thinks" is jot is actually zed...

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0:14 So Celtic languages are Germanic now? News to me.

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The Person ,Ευτοπία Iumaser, had given a very good explanation where the alpabet come!! Bravo!

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Well done Harrison! Just know that the area you refer to as Palestine, was not indeed called that back then. It's actually a recent name. Back in the days after Canaan, the area was split into other areas, and then part Judea and part Israel.

absolutely fascinating! thank you

History of the Alphabet. Way back in the beginning there was the letter A which was soon followed by the letter B. Then along came D. C was not going to have that and declared war on D....

You say tomato, I say ketchup. You say potato, I say curly fries. Let's call the calling off off.

You don´t mention the influence of arabic in the formation of the modern day alphabet........

My question out of curiosity is what was the order of the English alphabet before letters thorn, wynn, etc., were dropped?

So interesting.

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Tune did they sing the alphabet song to before twinkle twinkle little star?

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Did not know about vowels. My thanks.

It is extraordinary how even in a subject like this Israel becomes Palestine. Palestine came into being under Roman occupation that is the name was changed for political reasons. One can only wonder what is going on here.

Congratulations!!! The video is perfect !!! 👍❤ You have done a lot of research! Very interesting topic that you chose to develop! Incidentally the words you use, for example: Hieroglyphs, Sophisticated, Alphabet, History - Story, Logographic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Characters, Proto, Symbols, Archaic, and others, are Greek!!! By the way, I would like to point out that these words are not ancient, but are used as they are, from Antiquity until today! In the Greek language every word and every name has an interpretation! The words Ethiopia and Egypt are interpreted in Greek, because they are Greek! Especially the word Ethiopia has no meaning in the language of the respective country. Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer, philosopher and historian, which states "that Egypt is etymologically derived from the words Aegean and -uply-, that is, the country, which is located (south) of the Aegean Sea. Also the word pyramid is Greek. The word "pyramid" is derived from the words "πῦρ" (= fire) + "ἀμίς" (= container) The word "pῦr", however, implies not only fire but also "energy". After all, Heraclitus, referring to "pῦr" as a cosmogenic principle, meant a kind of energy and not fire as we know it… So the etymology of the word shows us that the pyramid is "that which receives energy". Could we say that it is a "capacitor" of the Earth?? Maybe….. According to Wikipedia: ''The name of the country Ethiopia comes from the ancient Greeks who called it that, with roots (ath-) and (Ips) ("burnt face"). ATTENTION: In ancient Greece there were many City-States, which had many Colonies each and there were also many Dialects. You mentioned that Cadmοs was a Phoenician Prince and the Alphabet was brought to Greece by him and also he was a great Greek hero. You were probably confused by the fact that Herodotus called him a Phoenician prince and not a Greek one. There were the Athenians, the Macedonians, the Spartans, the Corinthians and many others. They were referring to the Spartan or the Macedonian King and not to the Greek King. The term Greek was more general and referred to the entire Greek race. Also there were THE TRIBES OF THE GREEKS - Aeolians, Dorians, Achaeans, Ionians. The Phoenicians were Greeks, otherwise Kadmos would not have been allowed to be called a Greek hero without being a real Greek. The ancient Greeks attached great importance to this and there was no way for them to make an exception. For example, there was no case for an athlete to take part in the Olympic Games if it was not proven that he was Greek.

Latin alphabet since the 1600s! Tagalog had a much older script with Sanskrit roots.

You are lying, man. Egyptians have never controlled Ethiopia. Rather, Ethiopians were the colonizers of Egypt and the Alphabet started in Ethiopia. Read Van Sertima, Diodorus, Baldwin, Epherem Isaq, Herodotus and many others. So, don't lay to the world.

BS...Egyptian Hieroglyphs ARE NOT pictograms, they represent sounds. Bad research. Examples of Egyptian hieroglyphs include: A picture of a bird which represents the sound of the letter "a" A picture of rippling water which represents the sound of the letter "n".

Great stuff.

Update: Umm al Marra alphabet writings predate proto sinaitic by 500 years

Image result for Dispilio Tablet The Dispilio tablet is a wooden tablet bearing inscribed markings, unearthed during George Hourmouziadis's excavations of Dispilio in Greece, and carbon 14-dated to 5202 (± 123) BC. It was discovered in 1993 in a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kastoria in Kastoria, Western Macedonia, Greece.So i think you should represent a new video based to the new information tthat you are reading above.

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Looking forward to the video explaining J, u, and w.

Very good video. Sir do you know anything about Dravidien languages of south India? Much appreciated to know. Thankyou.

What about the Ancient Sumerian Cuneiform script? It seriously predates hieroglyphics. What role did it play?

Phoenetian??

This is so cool

Very interesting

what about Ugarit?

And then there is Bahasa Indonesia that use latin since early 20th century....

I already make my own alphabet 🗿🔤

Very good

I was thinking of the difference between 'S' and 'Z' the other day. At the outset, I like the letter S. It's 'S'hape, is reminiscent of feminine curves and looks comfortable enough to curl up with. Lay it down, add something straight and you get forever. That's marriage right? The Z though is just too awkward. It's all rigidity and potentially gets in the way. Besides, it's just an S when someone is cutting corners and doing things backwards.

Any connection to Sumerian cuneiform?

These days the term BCE is preferred to BC.

You totally missed talking about cuneiform.

The Ugaritic alphabet would seem to predate the Phoenician - it just wasn’t adopted as commonly

Phoenicians. where this words is written down at first, by whom? Then etruscans way of life, gods, along with alphabet, as part of culture was what?

At 0.32 you show "word" writen in various scripts. The Hebrew one is written backwards. It should be "מלה", a quick search on Google translate would have shown you this. Roop research. You also go on to say that the Phoenician alphabet was copied by the Arameans and Hebrews. The Phoenicians were just one group that lived in that region and used this script. It was used by many other groups in the region e.g. Moabites, Edomites etc. who spoke very similar dialects or closely related languages. It was simply that the Phoneticians were the one that spread this invitation to their trading partners in the Western Mediterranean. Furthermore, you refer to the "Hebrews" living in Palestine. They were known as Israelites during this period and lived in the Kingdom of Israel or the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. The term Palestine was coined much later by the Romans when they expelled the Jews from their land, renaming it Syria Palestina.

I prefer Rudyard Kipling's explanation that a caveman and his daughter invented it after an incident with pictograms went wrong.

How do I get a copy of the derivation chart you show at 8:32 ?

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You forgot to include the colonization of Australia.

I wondering the unwritten language is in the third country

Not sure how dependable anyone is talking about language development when he can't spell "Phoenecian".

You speak as we where there all the way, my do same thing different to pass your time.

I like to think that the Jews were the ones who transformed the Hieratic script into the Proto-Sinaitic abjad when they fled Egypt...

I am strongly of the idea by reading Homer that the phinicians were of similar peoples to the greeks who too smart to get a head of an ox to create the letter alpha The new information is that Greeks created their own letters a thing that has been hidden for known reasons .Give us real knowledge by looking into the books that the ancient Greek wrote about how they invented their alphabet and not only Heredotos because he was wrong about many things he didn't know for sure !

The alphabet came from Venus via hollow earth

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Why don't you read about Cadmos, who was Cadmos, and the philosopher said we didn't take anything from the Phoenician they change there system

Version history of the alphabet :)

For one talking about alphabets, it would help to correctly spell "Sinaitic" and "Phoenician" for starters. It's hard to watch to the end with these glaring and careless spelling on the names of writing systems which are the whole point of this video.

Wrong map on the language families😢

the Alpha-Bet-a story

Nice video but...Egypt is in Africa - North Africa to be exact. Many people do this. They separate Egypt from Africa. You said Egypt and North Africa. I think that Europeans do not want to give Africa and Africans credit as the Root of Civilization. Good simple video though:)

interesting , but unfortunately this theory does not hold water

World first cultures Lepenski vir, Starcevo, Vinca culture today Serbia. World first industrial revolution ca. 6000 BC. Bronze metallurgy. (BBC History news March 2010) Gordon Childe-The Danube in Prehistory, Jacque Pirenne-Agriculture at Danube Farming start about 6000 BC. Vinca First Calendar start to count years at 5508 BC. Farming wouldn’t be possible without knowledge of calendar. Both development started and developed together. Harald Harman about first cyrillic writings in Vinca culture in 5500 BC so 2000 years before any writings anywhere else on the world. Vinca Iron production 1400 BC. In today English language there is more than 2000 same or similar Serbian words. Names of the Balkan tribes: Pelasgians, Mycenaeans, Etruscan, Wendi, Illiyrians, Macedonians, Dardanians (Original Troy is here, not in Turkey Homer wrote sea is freezing in the winter-Panonian sea), Moesians, Dacians, Tracians, Rasci, Celts, Scythians, Sarmatians, Arians, Sea People, Peleset, Philistines, Hittites, Bhrygians. Tribes spread in all directions all over Europe and Asia ……. Wild Greeks arived ~ 1000 BC from Egipt, Hungarian from Asia and Bulgariens from Asia they found culture on the Balkans, writings and language and they mixed with domestic people. 18 Roman emperors were born in Serbia because of Etruscan connection. After Trojan war many groups of people left Troy in all directions to middle Europe, northern Europe to Britain and Scandinavia, south to Anatolia.One group under Aeneas sat sail with 22 ships and about 3400 followers and reach Italy-Etruscans. Proto serbian language is older than Sanskrit, Greek, Latin or all western Europian languages. Plato confirms in his work The Dialogues of Plato-Cratylus the Greeks used Pelasgian (Proto Serbian) to develop their own language.

I wonder why the Greeks needed 3 different letters for the sound "K". For that matter, why does English need "C" "K" and "Q" for the sound "K"?

Hebrews in Palestine?

Literally doesn’t mention two of the most unique alphabets that came from the same source of Greece, ARMENIAN AND GEORGIAN

"Tagaleggg in the Philippines?" It's pronounced "Taga-low"

I think it’s spelled “Proto-Sinaitic Alphabet”.

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Also: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CYqqFqoLnnk.html Robwords has an entire channel devoted to the development of the alphabet and English.

The Hebrews in Palestine? 🤔 Hmm

This was very interesting indeed. But please don't say a language "has" or "uses" an alphabet. The alphabet is only one method of encoding a language. There are several ways of encoding English speech other than the Oxford University approved Latin alphabet. We've got the pronounciation symbols Oxford University Press has adopted in their dictionaries to begin with.

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I wanna see my name in proto sinaitic

Learning this should prove to the most fanatical religious zealot that their Bible cannot predate either the Jewish nor the Greek alphabets. Neither of which appears before 1000 BCE.

go back to cuneiform for the full story. . you dont have the beginning and development of the alphabet. Aramaic or earlier.

Always is a miracle how an image is coded as letter..but this was happen in thousand of years..and by men’s with some IQ…

tagaleg?? no its tagalog we are filipino and there is more than tagalog like bisaya illoko tausog cebuano and magindanaon only true filipino would say that.

Perhaps at Jabal al-Lawz from YHWH Himself.

Proto "sainaitic" alphabet... NOT. Beware the BS.

At the time of ancient a Egypt, Phoenicia, Assyria, etc. .there WAS NO PALESTINE. . The name never existed until way after the Romans invaded the Middle East., you will not say Iraq instead of Babylon when talking about the ancient times, no???? no Palestine!!! Be consistent and accurate!

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Etymology of education: E DU characters (English alphabet) systematized by Seolchong (person's name) in ancient Korea. 《EDUCATION = 이두깨쳐느》 The present English alphabet is the script used by the ancient Slavic tribes, and the letters were not systematized in each region. It is the English alphabet that the ancient Koreans ruled as the imperial family and systematized the characters. Latin means Slavic language. This is systematized by a man named Seol Chong in ancient Korea. Etymology of Education: The modern English alphabet was created by a man named Seolchong (human name) in ancient Korea who systematized the letter E DU. 《EDUCATION = Awaken your head (dictionary meaning) 》 Etymological meaning: The birth of a baby. The ancient Koreans expressed this in writing. The present English alphabet is the script used by the ancient Slavic tribes, and the letters were not systematized in each region. It is the English alphabet that the ancient Koreans ruled as the imperial family and systematized the characters. Latin means Slavic language. This is systematized by a man named Seol Chong in ancient Korea 🇰🇷. Etymology of Education: The modern English alphabet was created by a man named Seolchong (human name) in ancient Korea who systematized the letter E DU. 《EDUCATION = Awaken your head (dictionary meaning) 》 Etymological meaning: The birth of a baby. The ancient Koreans expressed this in writing. The present English alphabet is the script used by the ancient Slavic tribes, and the letters were not systematized in each region. It is the English alphabet that the ancient Koreans ruled as the imperial family and systematized the characters. Latin means Slavic language. This is systematized by a man named Seol Chong in ancient Korea (🇰🇷). People all over the world should thank Seol Chong. This is far greater than the creation of Hangeul by King Sejong the Great. This should be set as a global anniversary. It is very worrying that people around the world still believe in the colonial history that King Sejong invented Hangeul. This is fake history. #etymologist, #etymologyeducation, #etymology, #COREAN, #CHOSEN, #koreahistory, #origin of english, #Origin of the English Alphabet, #etymologist, #etymologyeducation, #etymology, #COREAN, #CHOSEN, #koreahistory, #origin of english, #Origin of the English Alphabet, All of the English alphabet pronunciations have Korean linguistic pronunciations. Meaning is also the linguistic meaning of Korea. The present English alphabet was systematized by Seol Chong (monk) in ancient Korea. This is the letter E DU created by Seol Chong.

No is not Egypt!,,obviously it is Hebrew language why?coz GOD first created them, they are Hebrew people who multiplied people by people and language by language,,when the Hebrew people go along to other places so it means the oldest language is Hebrew language then adopted also somewhere in Sinai so then adopted these people they called it PROTO-SINAITIC SCRIPT or language then these SUMERIANS,AKKADIANS then adopted ny the Cananites then adopted by these Phoenicians then later by these Egyptians called these script the Hiroglyphs this pictograhps came these Egyptian language then Adopted by the Greeks and so on historically..

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I'm really sorry I do like this channel very much, but that's a totally wrong information 😕 Please search about the sumerians and the cuneiform system