Advantages of the alphabet • Easy to learn‚ as it requires relatively few characters. • Easy to incorporate new words into existing language. • Adaptable for use of new languages. Disadvantages of the alphabet • Easy to learn‚ which makes the ability to write less powerful. • Need to understand spoken language to read. • As spoken language changes‚ it becomes divorced from spoken language The Phoenicians lived in city-states in the area of modern Lebanon‚ in the same way as the Sumerians
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Arabic alphabet from his father. He went to school between 1912 and 1916 in Karakol and Sazonovka village of Ysyk Kul province. In 1916 after an unsuccessful revolt against Tsarist authorities‚ most of the residents of Ysyk Kul‚ escaped to China‚ Kasym and his parents were among them. They returned in December 1917. After he moved to Almaty‚ where education opportunities did exist. Нe entered the Kazakh Institute of Education in Tashkent. Major linguistic work Development of the Kyrgyz alphabet Kasym
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Alpha 1 Alpha Alpha (uppercase Α‚ lowercase α; Greek: Άλφα Álpha) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph . Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter А. In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for "beginning"‚ or "first" (in a series)‚ reflecting its Greek roots.[1] Uses Greek In Ancient Greek‚ alpha was pronounced [a] when short and [aː] when long. Where
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other hand left a much different legacy for the world. As opposed to the irrigation and metallurgy the Phoenicians were the first to use letters for writing records instead of images. The Phoenician alphabet did not have any vowels but it eventually was incorporated into the Greek alphabet‚ and Roman alphabet which was adapted to multiple languages‚ such as English. Economically‚ the Phoenicians were in much better shape than the Chavin. The Chavin were by no means in bad shape‚ but the Phoenicians excelled
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Another Influence that we got from Greece is The Alphabet. The Greeks were the first civilization to use an alphabet. The Alphabet was developed after the Dark Age when the Greeks stopped using their previous written language. The Greek alphabet had 24 letters and believe it or not the word "alphabet" originates from the first 2 letters of the Greek alphabet; alpha‚ and beta. Today many letters of our modern alphabet originate from the Greek alphabet such as the letters A‚ B‚ E‚ and O. Libraries are
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was to empty and dispose of the waste from the privies (toilets) were called ’Gong Farmers’! * The Elizabethan alphabet contained 24 letters‚ as opposed to the present day alphabet of 26 letters * In the Elizabethan alphabet the letters "u" and "v" were the same letter as were and "i" and "j" * The "j" was usually used as the capital form of the letter "i" in the Elizabethan alphabet * The letter "u" was used only in the middle of a word‚ and the "v" was used at the beginning! * Another letter
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GERMANIC LANGUAGES Classification of Modern Germanic Languages and their Distribution Classification of languages means their placement into families or phyla [‘failə] on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may thus be classified either genetically or typologically. A genetic classification assumes that certain languages are related in that they have evolved from a common ancestral language. This form of classification employs ancient records as well
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REACTION PAPER THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY The movie “The gods must be crazy” shows how cultures differ in every place‚ particularly the inhabitants of Kalahari Desert and the civilized people in the city. The movie the Gods Must Be Crazy is about cultural diffusion. People of Kalahari Desert lived a very simple life far from the cruelty of people. The Bushmen were of the Hunter-Gatherer Society meaning that one would not rely on domestic resources to obtain edible food‚ plants‚ and even animals
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greatly from not only the alphabet but also a major proportion of its vocabulary. Their direction of writing was inconsistent for a while but finally settled on Left to Right which we then adopted as our writing direction after a period of time. All of the alphabets of the world commenced from the Phoenician alphabet and it took the Greeks 900 years to use it consisting only of 19 characters. It didn’t have any vowels. We then used their ideas to make vowels into our alphabet. That’s where the idea
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isolated civilization that was not familiar with it. Cultural diffusion has occurred with many thing that we use now a days. For example our alphabet consists of 26 letters just like the Phoenician alphabet. Phoenician words are often found in Greek and Latin classical literatures. Egyptian‚ Akkadian‚ Arabic‚ and Hebrew were also influenced by the Phoenician alphabet. Therefore now and back then cultural diffusion has influenced our lives mainly for the
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