Step by step, he has thus been able to form his phonetic alphabet.
Civilization began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet and the use of writing.
We have a set of signs for Maya months and days handed down to us by Landa along with his phonetic alphabet.
The upper period of barbarism begins finally with the smelting of iron ore, and the discovery of the phonetic alphabet.
But how was this to be effected with a language which, like Chinese, had no phonetic alphabet?
They contain the germ of a phonetic alphabet, and represent sounds of spoken language.
The use of a phonetic alphabet is the only way to perform this double work rapidly, rationally, and with the minimum of confusion.
The phonetic alphabet came, like other great inventions, at the end of successive efforts.
It is evident that the use of a phonetic alphabet will make havoc of the ordinary spelling to be learnt subsequently.
They gave the phonetic alphabet to mankind and it seems not unlikely the knowledge of iron as well.