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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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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اﻟﻌﺮﺑ ـ ـﻴﺔ The Beginner’s Guide to Arabic GUIDE TO STUDYING ARABIC WHY STUDY ARABIC HOW TO STUDY ARABIC WHERE TO STUDY ARABIC WHAT YOU NEED BEFORE YOU START THE ARABIC ALPHABET INTRODUCTION TO THE ALPHABET THE LETTERS THE VOWELS SOME BASIC VOCABULARY RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ARABIC ONLINE RECOMMENDED BOOKS OUR NEWSLETTERS 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 11 13 17 17 18 19 Guide to Studying Arabic Why Study Arabic Arabic is spoken as a mother tongue by between 250 and 400 million people across 25 countries
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The aim of this first class was to provide a very general introduction to the Arabic language‚ how it is written‚ how it is pronounced‚ and to teach us to say some basic introductions and greetings. We also had a brief introduction to the Arabic alphabet. We were fully immersed in the language from the start as the teacher gave the class completely in Arabic. Functional objectives: Greetings & Introductions (also written in Arabic on the whiteboard). e.g. wa alaykum assalam - assalamu alakum
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identifying at least eight uppercase or lowercase letters‚ focusing on those in the student’s name (PK-LL-L3) (ELA-1-E1) Materials: Alphabet cards with pictures on the front and the word on the back Introduction: Start out by going through the ABC’s in different manners (songs‚ videos). Methods/Procedures: Once the children are clear on their alphabet‚ start with the cards. Each card should have a letter with a word on the other side. On the side with the letter there should a picture
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Esperanto still comprehend Western cultures‚ so it should not be called a neutral language. Secondly‚ it seems so unfair for Asians to learn this language. For instance‚ the writing systems of Chinese‚ Korean‚ Malaysian‚…are very different from the Latin alphabet. Writing
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