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	The Letter D - ITCFonts.com
		Much of our alphabet is built on a representational strategy called “acrophony” (from the Greek acro, meaning “uppermost; head” and phony, “sound”).
		Acrophony means indicating a sound through the use of a picture or name of something that begins with the same sound.
		Children’s alphabet books do this all the time; they might use a picture of a dog, say, to represent the sound of the letter D. When the Egyptians used the symbol for a hand (their word “deret”) to indicate the sound value of “D,” it served its purpose adequately.
	www.itcfonts.com /Ulc/2811/D.htm (308 words)

	Acrophonic xmpg.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Acrophony gives each grapheme in an alphabet the name of an object whose name begins with the relevant letter.
		This would be true in English if, for example, the letter A was called the letter Axe or Aardvark.
		The canonical acrophony is an ideographic or pictographic writing system, where the letter's name and glyph both represent the same thing or concept - if e.g.
	acrophonic.en.xmpg.org (275 words)

	THE ALPHABET
		That symbol could then be used over and over without referring to the literal meaning of the picture.
		This use of a picture to represent a sound is called “acrophony,” and it was the first step in the development of an actual alphabet.
		The next step was how the Egyptian system affected the writing system of the Sinaitic people in approximately 1700 BCE when Sinai came under Egyptian rule.
	www.sunysuffolk.edu /~carrd71/Chapter1.htm (426 words)

	acrophony (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		acrophony is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The Older Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names) consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three rows of eight.
		Old Futhark inscriptions were found on artefacts scattered between the Carpathes and Lappland, with the highest concentration in Denmark.
	www.experiencefestival.com.cob-web.org:8888 /acrophony (1106 words)

	Words and Acro and acronym and acrostic and acrophony and acrologic and MASH and Nabisco and abecedarian
		mind and advanced to acrophony, which is the "sound of the initial." But then the OED goes on to say, "the use of what was originally a picture-symbol or hieroglyph of an object to represent phonetically the initial syllable or sound of the name of the object." Phew.
		When I studied the Ancient Near East several decades ago, I was told that the way ANE languages evolved was from pictographic to ideographic to phonetic script.
		If we kept the definition of acrophony confined in this way, it wouldn't help us much, since English is not a language which is acrophonic.
	www.drbilllong.com /Words/AcroII.html (773 words)

	image page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Egyptians already told stories with pictures since the 4th millinnium BC.
		Furthermore, Egyptians started to develop acrophony, which is using pictographs to stand for the frist sound of a word.
		The Egyptian pictograph above of a basket is used for the sound K. The Egyptian idea of acrophony then transfered to the Proto-Sinaitics in around 1500 BC.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/leev/egyptK.htm (57 words)

	Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Egyptian hieratic script was basically logographic, but used rebus and acrophony extensively.
		There was a complete set of uniliteral glyphs from at least 2700 BCE — that is, the hieroglyphic script contained an alphabetic subsystem within it.
		The assumption is that they developed a Semitic script based on acrophony, where the first sound of the Semitic word for an Egyptian glyph became associated with that glyph.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Middle_Bronze_Age_alphabets (1604 words)

	[b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
		But both the letter-based roots (words) and the concept of (initial) letter existed.
		To me, acrophony seems a way to explain the concept of letters to cavepeople.
		If we accept that the roots are not an arbitrary mumbling, but are carefully and meaningfully crafted, which seems the case, we are forced to accept that whoever made these roots, he knew the letters.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2004-December/021738.html (567 words)

	New Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The practice of using a pictograph to stand for the first sound in the word it stood for is called acrophony and was the first step in the development of an ALPHABET or the "One Sign-One sound" system of writing.
		The script (used by the entire world) went through a metamorphasis (ie: Egyptian and other languages) right around the time that Hebrew scriptures mention the Tower of Bavel.
		The origin of the Phoenician letters [and even more so the Old Negev letters] in the Proto-Canaanite and Proto-Sinaiic scripts, and the borrowing of most, if not all, letter forms in the latter script from Egyptian hieroglyphics on the basis of acrophony are now seen as indubitable facts (cf.
	www.chayas.com /hebrewpictorial.htm (596 words)

	Theology 1120 Blog » Blog Archive » History of Writing
		Eventually, however, certain Egyptian hieroglyphs such as which was pronounced r’i meaning “mouth” became the pictograph for the sound of R with any vowel.
		The pictograph for “water” pronounced nu became the symbol for the consonantal sound of N. This practice of using a pictograph to stand for the first sound in the word it stood for is called acrophony and was the first step in the development of an ALPHABET or the “One Sign-One sound” system of writing.(www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm).
		The alphabet helped to democratize civilization by helping the people to become responsible for themselves and their property.
	cat.xula.edu /blogs/theology1120/2006/02/01/history-of-writing (346 words)

	New Theory on the Origin and Evolution of Brahmi Alphabet By A. Banerjee
		Similarly, Dr. S.R. Rao has used the phonetics of a majority of Semitic characters similar in shape to the Indus pictograms and obtained the picture of a relevant logical pre-Vedic language on decipherment.
		The author has established that all Brahmi characters excepting three or four can be created by applying the principle of acrophony to the ancient Indo-Aryan language.
		The remaining letters were either created from Austric words or from other foreign languages, when trade contacts grew intensively around fourth-fifth century BC.
	www.sundeepbooks.com /servlet/sugetbiblio?bno=005994 (433 words)

	George Walker: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		His newest imprint Biting Dog Press is publishing plays in Limited Edition by Neil Gaiman, which are designed and illustrated by Walker (Murder Mysteries, A Play for Voices and Snow, Glass, Apples).
		George has combined graphic and sculptural elements and juxtaposed them with sound aspects as in his book work Acrophony, and produces several one-of-a-kind artists' books a year.
		A book of his wood engravings, The Inverted Line, was published by the Porcupine's Quill in 2000.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Walker_George_3262509.htm (733 words)

	Theology 1120 Blog » Blog Archive » Week 3 Blog: Alphabet
		Cadmus invented the alphabet that we use today.
		The practice of using a pictograph to stand for the first sound in the word it stood for is called acrophony.
		This was the first step in the development of the alphabet.
	cat.xula.edu /blogs/theology1120/2006/05/30/week-3-blog-alphabet (893 words)

	Languages - News Articles
		According to Frank Cross, an early alphabet expert at Harvard University, "Its simplicity is breathtaking, compared to the writing systems of the time."
		The earliest alphabet was based on the concept of acrophony, in which the sound of an Egyptian letter was associated with the Semitic value for that sign.
		For example, the Egyptian hieroglyph for "house" came to represent the letter beth in the Semitic writing system (the predecessor to the Hebrew beth; Arabic beit; Greek beta; and the letter B), since it was closely related to their word for house.
	www.crystalinks.com /languagesnews.html (1095 words)

	Acrophony - Main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Hello, and here's a quick intro: we're Acrophony (James Ritson and Tom Jeeves) and we play guitars and try to sing a bit.
		To keep things short, we're a guitar duo with a bit of singing and we recorded over an hour's worth of material that comprises the album "Canis Canem Edit", which roughly translates from Latin to "Dog Eat Dog".
		All music/media/textual content found on the site is copyright James Ritson and Tom Jeeves 2006.
	www.acrophony.co.uk (127 words)

	sci.lang: Re: The Phaistos Disk, side A, according to Fischer
		> > way he comes to the conclusion that the Script was using acrophony.
		Like J. Faucounau, he met acrophony "on the way".
		That the rare signs are read with complex values shows that Faucounau
	sci.tech-archive.net /Archive/sci.lang/2004-07/1018.html (1703 words)

	George Walker Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The revised and expanded edition by Keith A. Smith
		George Walker's book and CD ACROPHONY is featured on pg.
		A good book for understanding the variety and concepts involved in creating Artists' books.
	www.bitingdogpress.com /gw/books.html (102 words)

	Definition of acrophony - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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		Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:01:12 -0500 Subject: Semitic alphabet out of hieroglyphs The reason I can't accept that (as David Lorton put the claim) "the Semitic alphabet was developed out of signs in the Egyptian writing system" is that the Semitic signs don't have the same values as the hieroglyphs they resemble.
		If some clever Semitic-speaker decided to write Semitic using hieroglyphs-- say, the monoconsonantal ones only, which the Egyptians never used as a set-- then wouldn't the symbols have come over with their existing values (even though the acrophony would no longer work), as hjappened in the transfer from Phoenician to Greek?
		I think the most we can say ius that Phoenicians (Semites) had some idea of how Egyptian writing worked (possibly the source for writing consonants only?), but had not learned the system.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V03/v03.n173 (5568 words)

	Artists' Books by George Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Medium: artist's book- multi media relief printing, wood engraving, linocut, wood cut and compact disc with hand printed CD inserts
		Description: Limited to fifty hand printed books and 300 CD1s Acrophony is a project created in 1991 that explores symbols and sound.
		Merging visual and soundscape artwork using a unique invented musical hieroglyphic language; Acrophony is a work concerned with art and language.
	www3.sympatico.ca /george.walker/books.htm (191 words)

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