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		The Vinca culture appears to have traded its wares quite widely with other cultures (as demonstrated by the widespread distribution of inscribed pots), so it is possible that the "numerical" symbols conveyed information about the value of the pots or their contents.
		The Vinca symbols have not attracted as much attention as the arguably more glamorous Linear B of Crete and Easter Island's Rongo Rongo, both of which are still untranslated.
		In his book "The Vinca Alphabet," he proposes that all of the Vinca signs exist in the Etruscan alphabet, and conversely, that all Etruscan letters are found among Vinca signs.
	www.informationclub.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vinca_alphabet.html (1333 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 word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet.
		Alphabetic material was uncovered at Serabit el-Khadem in Sinai in 1905 and at Ugarit in Syria in 1929.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/al/alphabet.html (1024 words)

	zappmedia® ADVENTURE LANGUAGE
		Eight thousand years ago the people of the Vinca culture began to develop the first known system of writing, which was used exclusively in sacred rituals.
		It is possible however, that the Cypriot syllabic script influenced the development of alphabetic script in the Near East.
		Thus many variations of alphabetic script were invented, but it was Latin which spread due to the growing military and commercial power of Rome.
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	Writing Systems Encyclopedia Article @ Shoulda.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Perfectly phonological alphabets are very easy to use and learn, and languages that have them (for example Serbian) have much lower barriers to literacy than languages such as English, which has a very complex and irregular spelling system.
		Mongolian alphabet is unique in being the only script written top-to-bottom, left-to-right; this direction originated from an ancestral Semitic direction by rotating the page 90° counter-clockwise to conform to the appearance of Chinese writing.
	www.shoulda.net /encyclopedia/Writing_systems (2720 words)

	Writing Systems Encyclopedia Article @ Oughta.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is thought that the first true alphabetic writing appeared around 2000 BC, as a representation of language developed by Semitic workers in Egypt (see History of the alphabet).
		Most other alphabets in the world today either descended from this one innovation, many via the Phoenician alphabet, or were directly inspired by its design.
		An alphabet is a small set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language.
	www.oughta.net /encyclopedia/Writing_systems (3150 words)

	Vinca alphabet
		The Vinca alphabet (also known as the Old European Script or Vinca-Tordos script) is believed by some to be the writing system of the Vinca culture, which inhabited south-eastern Europe around 6000-4000 BC.
		The Vinca culture appears to have traded its wares quite widely with other cultures (as demonstrated by the widespread distribution of inscribed pots), so it is possible that the "numerical" symbols conveyed information about the value of the pots or their contents.
		In his book "The Vinca Alphabet," he proposes that all of the Vinca signs exist in the Etruscan alphabet, and conversely, that all Etruscan letters are found among Vinca signs.
	www.fact-index.com /v/vi/vinca_alphabet.html (1355 words)

	Talk:Vinca alphabet - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It should be moved to Vinca culture since we don't know whether it's really an alphabet.
		Vinca culture should be about, surprisingly, Vinca culture.
		Perhaps this could be moved to Vinca script, but I think that it is shown quite convincigly that the script is an alphabet.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /wiki.php?title=_Talk:Vinca_alphabet&printable=yes (1176 words)

	col.research.sue
		In order to study the origin of the alphabet by the Canaanites somewhere in the middle of the 2nd Millennium B.C., we must first examine how writing was invented by the Sumerians some 1,500 years earlier.
		Vinca (Old European) is a collection of symbols found on many artifacts dating from between 6000 to 4500 B.C. excavated from sites in southeast Europe, in particular from Vinca near Belgrade.
		The Etruscan alphabet probably developed from the Greek alphabet and was used by Greek colonists in Italy from the middle of the sixth century B.C. until about the first century AD.
	www.sunysuffolk.edu /~slivc61/col.research.sue.html (1547 words)

	Old European Script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Old European Script (also known as the Vinča alphabet, Vinča script or Vinča-Tordos script) is a name sometimes given to the markings on prehistoric artifacts found in south-eastern Europe.
		In his book The Vinča Alphabet, he proposes that all of the symbols exist in the Etruscan alphabet, and conversely, that all Etruscan letters are found among Vinča signs.
		However, these claims are not taken seriously by scholars, who demonstrate that the Etruscan alphabet is derived from the West Greek Alphabet, which in turn is derived from the Phoenician writing system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vinca_alphabet (1697 words)

	history_of_writing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Notably the Vinca script shows an evolution of simple symbols beginning in the 7th millennium, gradually increasing in complexity throughout the 6th millennium and culminating in the TÄrtÄria tablets of the 5th millennium with their rows of symbols carefully aligned, evoking the impression of a "text".
		The first pure alphabets (properly, "abjads", mapping single symbols to single phonemes, but not necessarily each phoneme to a symbol) emerged around 1800 BC in Ancient Egypt, as a representation of language developed by Semitic workers in Egypt, but by then alphabetic principles had already been inculcated into Egyptian hieroglyphs for a millennium.
		The Greek and Latin alphabets in the early centuries AD gave rise to several European scripts such as the Runes and the Gothic and Cyrillic alphabets while the Aramaic alphabet evolved into the Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic abjads and the South Arabian alphabet gave rise to the Ge'ez abugida.
	www.adspa.com /wiki/?title=History_of_writing (1567 words)

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