The Mysteries of the Alphabet

The Origins of Writing

• Author(s): Marc-Alain Ouaknin,
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Pages: 381
• ISBN_10: 0789205238
  ISBN_13: 9780789205230
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Alphabets & Writing Systems , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.