For our excerpt we chose a quote by a man named Dejan Stojanovic. We chose this because of the poetic vibe and that it deals with our subject, alphabets. What we took from this is that there is an alphabet everywhere. He is saying that alphabets are a big part of life, cultures, countries, and religion. There is almost an alphabet for every culture, religion, and country. This poem is flowing and sweet but has a truth to it. So many countries and cultures have their own alphabet to represent them. You don’t want to always share an alphabet, you want to be independent and represent what you believe in.
We chose to do the history of alphabets, focusing on a specific three- those being the Egyptian alphabet, the Ancient Latin alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet. We chose to do it as there are plenty of alphabets currently in use in the world that are all extremely different. There have been a total of 59 total alphabets in the world, with 18 currently in use, 9 used to a limited extent and 29 currently unused. We thought it would be very interesting to know of their origins, how they r...
civilization. They started the Olympic games. Greeks come up with the idea of an alphabet
“This is Our World” by Dorothy Allison is an essay that brings her own personal views to art and the impact that it has had on her life. She brings descriptive language to describe how the art can be compared to writing. The author persuades her audience that writing is more than just writing and it can be an eloquent and beautiful piece of art.
Hieroglyphs, a writing system method representing verbal communication, served as the basis for the Egyptian alphabet from which the later Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic alphabets came from.
Permutations of Letters Experiment 1. Investigate the number of different permutations of the letters of the name Emma. I am trying to find the maximum number of possible permutations of the name EMMA. This name has four letters but only three variable letters E, M and A. Permutations: EMMA MMAE AEMM EMAM MMEA AMEM EAMM MAME AMME MAEM MEMA MEAM This shows us that there are twelve possible permutations of the letters of the name EMMA.
Thousands of years ago in Egypt, this paper would only be understood by a few people professionally trained to read and write hieroglyphs. Only wealthy children in ancient Egypt were taught to read and write, and the language was kept complicated so that they were the only ones that could understand. Hieroglyphics are a very intricate system of writing that was very complex, was only mastered by scribes, and there are many interesting hieroglyphic discoveries in history.
in her name; she does the same with her friend LUCY. LUCY has twice as
Hieroglyphs developed from illustrations that would be found on various objects in a society. Although the pictures changed a little, the Egyptians began to use this form of language an...
What was the Greek alphabet? The ancient Greek language was invented by Socrates and Plato. (The Independent., 2013.) Scientist first discovered this ancient language by finding a tablet they call the Linear B Tablet. Linear B is a writing used in Greece in the 13th century. Scientist found a tablet with Linear B writing that was from the Bronze Age. That means this tablet was from somewhere around 1200 B.C. ("Greek Alphabet.", 2013.) The Greeks traded with a group called the Phoenicians. When they traded, the Phoenicians wrote down what they received to keep track. The Greeks saw this writing useful and decided to start writing. They used the Phoenicians alphabet but changed it in some ways. ("The Greek Alphabet - Ancient Greece for Kids." , 2013.) When the Greek language was spoken they called it Koine. There were many other forms of spoken Greek but Koine was the most common. ("Greek Alphabet." , 2013.) The first two words in the Greek alphabet are Alpha and Beta. Look familiar? It should. If you put Alpha and Beta together, they form the word alphabet. So, the Greeks came up with the word “alphabet”. The Greek language is over 2500 years old bu...
Our early history in writing dates back to the origins of the ancient Egyptian civilization. According to History-world.org, “ The earliest evidence of an Egyptian hieroglyphic system is believed to be from about 3300 or 3200 B.C.” Glyphs are some of the earliest writings known to man. One belief the Egyptians had was “that writing was invented by the god Thoth…” (Simon Ager). The hieroglyphics were not inspired by any other civilizations writings, they were believed to be passed down to the Egyptians by the god Thoth. Hieroglyphs were not based on any other writing but instead were the beginning of centuries of writing to come.
Cuneiform writing was an important part of history. Developing around 3500 BCE in Sumeria, this form of writing is still relevant in modern day life because it was the first form of written history and the first form of a phonogram, which caused writing to change from logograms to phonograms. Logograms are symbols that are drawn to show meaning, using the symbols to “paint a picture” while phonograms are words that have a “sound” to them. Starting as a pictograph, which means that pictures are used as symbols to tell a story, the language slowly evolved into a ideograph, which is when two symbols are put together to form an idea, this slowly evolved into what it ended as, a phonogram. Cuneiform writing also h...
The alphabet has undergone multiple alterations in its thousand years of history, but it is now the most used alphabet used today. It is used all across Europe and around the world for thousands of different languages, including, of course, our own. Over time the alphabet we use today has lost a few special characters, but remains quite similar to the version of the Roman alphabet we inherited.
According to array of proofs discovered in many countries all over the world by the archaeologists, it is said that Writing has been existing for such a long time and it is continuously developed with the flow of time. At the beginning, the symbols in writing systems do not have any relationship with the sound of the language which called non – phonological systems (Crystal, 1986)
Language is crucial to young children’s development; it is essential for learning and communicating with others. Children learn most effectively through being involved in rich experiences and practical activities promoted through play, and adults need to join this play talking with and listening to them. There have been several theories about how young children acquire language. Some argued that the environment is an important factor, while others state that language is innate and that environment has a minor role in shaping knowledge.
Learning English pronunciation is one of the essential courses for students of English for Second Language (ESL) and English for Foreign Language (EFL). It requires independent learning and practices outside the classroom to enhance students’ pronunciation skills. Though, in this great technology world, traditional ways (using textbook) of learning and teaching English pronunciation is still used as primary teaching and learning method in most institutions, while, textbook is quiet, not interactive, and it does not encourage self-learning. Due this reason, this study aims to develop a courseware for the educators and learners; Multimedia Interactive Learning Courseware for English Phonetics and Phonology. The development of this prototype uses an instructional model, which is ADDIE model as a step-by-step guidance to complete the development. Using ADDIE model, this prototype is successfully developed.
Sorting has been analyzed by computer scientists for decades, and thus it is an ideal subject to begin with when studying computer science. Sorting is done with algorithms, which are a set of specific commands that are followed in a certain order to complete a task. To study sorting, must first be comfortable with iteration and recursion. These two terms designate the ways tasks are repeatedly performed. The problem of sorting can have two meanings. In one context, it refers to grouping similar items; for example, sorting laundry into piles of shirts and socks. In another context, it refers to ordering items according to some rules; for example, organizing names alphabetically in a phone book. The formal study of sorting is reserved for a course in data structures or algorithms, where numerous variations on sorting are studied.