Wednesday, September 14, 2011


Who Thought Of The Alphabet Firtst ?

Before the alphabet came into existence people communicated their ideas by pictures. Picture writing was highly developed by the ancient Chinese, Egyptians and Babylonians. With the passage of time this picture witting was modified into idea writing by using various symbols. Egyptians were the first to make up kind of alphabet by adding certain signs along with pictures which stood for separate letters. Later on, people living on the east of Mediterranean found that the same sound and developed an alphabet which came, with certain amendments to Europe. This was Latin alphabet from which came the present day letters.

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