Alphabets

Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny

Codex Sinaiticus, written in the 4th century on parchment

MagisculeUncial

The manuscript here reproduced was written in the year 1022, and is now in the Ambrosian Library at Milan. It contains the Gospels only, and its official designation in the list of New Testament MSS. is Evan.348. MinisculeCursive

Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny

Hieroglyphics

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone decree of Ptolemy V in 196 B.C.discovered 1799Deciphered by Young and Champollion 1822

Canopus StoneDecree of Ptolemy III 239 B.C,

Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyph Websites

• http://www.greatscott.com/hiero • http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/hieroglyphs/• Short Intro: http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/Intro/Intro.html

• Hieroglyph Translators: – http://www.quizland.com/hiero.mv– http://www.kingtut-treasures.com/hiero.htm

Sound Signs

• Sound Signs– Alphabetic– Bilateral– Trilateral

• Sense Sounds– Ideograms– Determinatives

RA ּס

• Word Sign

• Determinative

• Sound

Names of Gods

• http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/Intro/node14.html#SECTION00061000000000000000

Tutankhamon’s Wishing Cup

• Ideograph

• Hieroglyph

• Abjad

• Syllabary

• Alphabet

Writing Systems

J K N D J L Abjad

JA KA AN NA DA JI LI Syllabary

JAK AND JIL True Alphabetical Transcription

JACK AND JILL Standard English Spelling

• Cuneiform 3400 B.C.

• Hieroglyphics 3000 B.C.

• Linear A 2000-1200 B.C

• Linear B c.1200-1000 B.C.(Mycenaean Greek)

• Phoenician c.1200 B.C. (abjad)

• Greek c.750 B.C.

• Roman c.500 B.C.

• Russian c.1000 A.D.