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	Alphabet
		Among alphabets, one may distinguish abjads, which only record consonants ; alphabets which record consonants and vowels separately, called simply alphabets and first developed by the Greekss ; and abugidas, in which the vowels are indicated by systematic modification of the form of the consonants.
		Alphabetic material was uncovered at Serabit el-Khadem in Sinai in 1905 and at Ugarit in Syria in 1929.
		The Aramaic alphabet, was probably also the ancestor of the Brahmic alphabets of India, which spread to Southeast Asia and Indonesia with the spread of Buddhism and Hinduism.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/a/al/alphabet.html (1344 words)

	Alphabet
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters --basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language.
		The alphabets of Europe, including the Roman alphabet and its descendants and the Cyrillic alphabet, developed for the eastern Slavic languages, are descended from the Greek alphabet.
		The most popular alphabet in use today is a modern 26-letter version of the Roman alphabet, used by the English language and most European languages.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/a/al/alphabet.html (1210 words)

	Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Samaritan alphabet, used by the Samaritans, is a version of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
		It later split off into a number of related alphabets, including the modern Hebrew alphabet, the Syriac alphabet, and the Nabatean alphabet, a highly cursive form that was the origin of the Arabic alphabet.
		The Greek alphabet is thought to have developed either directly from the Phoenician alphabet, or to share a common parent in Proto-Canaanite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenician_alphabet (653 words)

	Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among alphabets, one may distinguish abjads, which only record consonants ; alphabets which record consonants and vowels separately, called simplyalphabets and first developed by the Greeks ; and abugidas, in which the vowels are indicated by systematic modification of the form of the consonants.
		The Arabic alphabet is descended from the Aramaic via the Nabatean alphabet of what is now southern Jordan.The Pahlavi alphabet was adapted for writing middle Persian, and isthe ancestor of the Armenian alphabet, which is also influencedby the Greek alphabet.
		The alphabets of Europe, including the Romanalphabet and its descendants and the Cyrillic alphabet,developed for the eastern Slavic languages, are descended from theGreek alphabet.
	www.therfcc.org /alphabet-8485.html (1101 words)

	The Ultimate Alphabet Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters —basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		Most subsequent alphabets with vowels are derived from the early Greek alphabets, and there is evidence of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic influence in the shapes that are used to represent individual letters of the Latin (and therefore, Greek) alphabet (Ouaknin and Bacon, 1999).
		Present day indications are that the alphabets of Europe—including the Roman alphabet and its descendants, the Cyrillic alphabet developed for the eastern Slavic languages, and the runic alphabets —are all themselves ultimately descended from the Greek alphabet.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Alphabet (1639 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters â” basic written symbols â” each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		Notable exceptions are the Braille alphabet, Morse Code and the cuneiform alphabet of the ancient city of Ugarit.
		The Hawaiian alphabet is sometimes claimed to be as small, but it actually consists of 13 letters (which counts the Ê»okina, which represents a consonant) and a diacritic to indicate long vowels.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alphabet (5991 words)

	Alphabet - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Note that the order does not have to be constant among different languages using this alphabet; for examples see Latin alphabet: Collating in other languages.
		Until AD 1999 it was generally accepted that the first alphabet originated some 300-500 years later.
		The Greek alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet with the innovation of separate symbols for vowels (Semitic did not need them).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Alphabet (1371 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Alphabet [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letter s—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		Among alphabets, one may distinguish abjad s, which only record consonant s; alphabets which record consonants and vowel s separately, called simply alphabets and first developed by the Greek s; and abugida s, in which the vowels are indicated by systematic modification of the form of the consonants.
		The alphabets of Europe, including the Roman alphabet and its descendants and the Cyrillic alphabet, developed for the eastern Slavic languages, and the runic alphabet s are all themselves ultimately descended from the Greek alphabet.
	encyclozine.com /Alphabet (1693 words)

	Alphabet - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among alphabets that aren't used as national scripts today, a few are clearly independent of other alphabets in their letter forms: the Zhuyin phonetic alphabet derives from Chinese characters, and the geometric Cree Syllabics (which, despite its name, is an abugida) is derived from British shorthand.
		Although manual alphabets are a direct continuation of the local alphabet (both the British two-handed and the French / American one-handed alphabets retain the forms of the Latin alphabet, as the Indian manual alphabet does Devanagari, and the Korean does Hangul), Braille, semaphore, maritime signal flags, and the Morse codes are essentially arbitrary geometric forms.
		The Aramaic alphabet, which evolved from Phoenician in the 7th century BC and was used by the Persian Empire, appears to be the ancestor of nearly all of the modern alphabets of Asia.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Alphabet (2947 words)

	Learn about Alphabet. Complete listing of Alphabet. Alphabet in Smartpedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.
		Phoenician alphabet), and nearly all subsequent alphabets are derived from it or inspired by it, directly or indirectly.
		Egyptian hieroglyphic influence in the shapes that are used to represent individual letters of the Latin (and therefore, Greek) alphabet (Ouaknin and Bacon, 1999).
	www.smartpedia.com /s/b/Alphabet (1782 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ALPHABET, THE HEBREW: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If it be conceded that the names of the letters of the alphabet originated with the same man, then, since their form is Aramaic, one could say that he was an Aramean; but they may also have arisen somewhat later.
		The Nabatean alphabet also in a comparatively short period developed into a smooth and pleasing cursive, due entirely to the repeated effort to connect the letters with each other.
		In the case of alphabets having a highly developed system of ligature, like the Arabic, the writer might obtain good results by artistic grouping of letters, but in a block text, such as the Hebrew, in which every letter must be strictly separated, efforts in the direction of ornamentation were confined to the individual letter.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1308&letter=A (7624 words)

	Phoenicia - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was inherited by the Canaanites and Phoenicians, and nearly all subsequent alphabets are derived from it or inspired by it, directly or indirectly.
		The Aramaic alphabet, which evolved in the 7th century BCE, is the ancestor to most of the alphabets of Asia.
		The Syriac alphabet was used by Syrian Christians after the 3rd century CE, and was adapted to create the alphabets of northern Asia, including the Sogdian, Manichean, Uighur, Mongolian, and Manchu alphabets.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Phoenicia&printable=yes (1258 words)

	Alphabet Article, Alphabet Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters —basicwritten symbols—each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language.
		The alphabets of Europe, including the Romanalphabet and its descendants and the Cyrillic alphabet,developed for the eastern Slavic languages, and the runic alphabets are all themselves descended from the Greek alphabet.
		The most popular Latin alphabet in use today is the 26-letter alphabet normally used for English, French, and German which is also employed for codes devised for internationalstandards:
	www.anoca.org /alphabets/letters/alphabet.html (1276 words)

	AncientScripts.com: The Alphabet
		This alphabet, though, eventually disappeared from the mainstream, and survived as the Samaritan script.
		In Israel, it became the "Jewish" alphabet, the direct descendant of which is the modern Hebrew alphabet.
		Traditionally the Greeks held that their alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet, and many scholars agree with this as well.
	www.ancientscripts.com /alphabet.html (1375 words)

	Language School Explorer - Information about Alphabet
		(The Georgian alphabet is supposed to have been extended to 52 letters to write Aghbanian, but this presumably involved the use of diacritics, as the 50-letter Svan alphabet does.)
		Syllabaries typically include 50 to 400 glyphs (though PirahÃ£ would require only 24 if tone were not indicated, and Rotokas 30), and the glyphs of logographic systems number from the hundreds to thousands.
		These variants may drop letters (Hawaiian) or add letters (Czech) to or from the classical Roman script, and of course many letter shapes have changed over the centuries â” such as the lower-case letters you're reading now, which the Romans would not have recognized.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Alphabet (2169 words)

	Labyrinths - Part2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fig.4 shows that in each case, the first few letters of each alphabet are given in the alphabetical order of that alphabet.
		From this we conclude that the Sabaean alphabet as given in Fig.5a is not in alphabetical order.
		Finally, let us contemplate the fact that the alphabet which in Fig.5b is called the Mino-Sabaean alphabet is called the Old South Arabian alphabet in the time line.
	www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /~adler/LABYRINTHS/labyrinths2.html (2977 words)

	Nabatean alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nabatean alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (abjad) that was used by the Nabateans in the 2nd century BC.
		The alphabet is descended from the Aramaic alphabet, and in turn developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century.
		This Afro-Asiatic languages -related article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nabatean_alphabet (73 words)

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		A thousand years before Mohammed, and five hundred years before the Romans, the Nabateans controlled the area which makes up today’s Jordan.
		Descendents of nomadic tribes from the Arabian peninsula, they ruled from Petra, a grandiose city of towering buildings and irrigation ditches carved out of the sandstone mountains.
		Nabatean trade routes extended into India and China; the Nabatean alphabet would later become Arabic script.
	www.hybridmagazine.com /culture/0502/jordan.shtml (905 words)

	CGR Community - How the frick do you get Arabic out of this? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first attached GIF is the alphabet for Early Aramaic (Proto-Hebrew)
		The second attached GIF is the alphabet for Nabatean Aramaic, which developed, along with Hebrew, from early Aramaic (proto-Hebrew)
		The third GIF is the modern-day Arabic alef-bet, which (supposedly) developed out of Nabatean Aramaic.
	www.christianguitar.org /forums/printthread.php?t=91552 (209 words)

	Athena Review 2,2: Graeco-Roman Papyrus Documents from Egypt
		In the Graeco-Roman period the native language evolved from demotic into Coptic, the last stage of ancient Egyptian.
		The Arabic alphabet, derived in the 4th century AD from the little-known Nabatean alphabet, has 28 letters (all consonants), including six added to accommodate Arabic sounds.
		Arabic has evolved into two basic scripts, the thicker-stroked Kufic (from Al Kufa in Mesopotamia), and Naskhi, a cursive script much used on papyrus, and the ancestor of modern Arabic writing.
	www.athenapub.com /egypap1.htm (3078 words)

	Phoenician alphabet - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Phoenician alphabet - Your Art History Reference Guide!
		The meanings given are of the letter names in Phoenician.
		An alternative proposal to handle it as a font variation of Hebrew was turned down.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Phoenician_alphabet (595 words)

	Nabataea: Nabataean Writing - Main Menu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Nabataean alphabet is related to Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Kharosthi, Phoenician, Sabaean, Samaritan, South Arabian, and Syriac.
		During the 4th and 5th centuries AD, Nabataean script evolved into the Arabic alphabet.
		It is written from right to left in horizontal lines
	nabataea.net /write.html (125 words)

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