Published by Thierry H. De Mortain
Copyright 2012 Thierry H. De Mortain
Revision 1 ; 7 th october 2012
THE GREEK ALPHABET
MARIAGE BETWEEN THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABET AND THE GREEK LANGUAGE
Author : Thierry H. de Mortain.
The pictographic writing has a long tradition which is dated to the 3 rd millennium before Christ and which developed in parallel in Egypt (hieroglyphs) and in Mesopotamia (cuneiform), and then gave birth and influenced all writing systems of the middle east like the protosinaitic, the pers, the Arab, the Hebraic and finally the Phoenician whose letters will propagate to the Latin alphabet, through the Greek alphabet.
I’m always astonished to read at the front page of a dictionary the following definition for letter A : first letter of the alphabet. Derisory definition for this letter which is reproduced billions of times worldwide in books, papers, in class rooms, on TV, on computers and cell phones.