10 sentences with 'alphabet'
Example sentences and phrases with the word alphabet and other words derived from it.
• « In other words, because they used the same language and the same alphabet of symbols, and because they recorded the rituals and transactions of Egyptian society, scribes were a kind of cultural glue that kept things going from generation to generation. »
• « As early as 1300 BCE, building on the work of the earlier Canaanites, the Phoenicians developed a syllabic alphabet that formed the basis of Greek and Roman writing much later. »
• « A syllabic alphabet has characters that represent sounds, rather than characters that represent things or concepts. These alphabets are much smaller and less complex than symbolic alphabets. »
• « It is possible for a non-specialist to learn to read and write using a syllabic alphabet much more quickly than using a symbolic alphabet (such as Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese characters). »
• « Of the various influences the Ionian Greeks received from the Phoenicians, none was more important than their alphabet. »
• « From the Phoenician version, the Ionian Greeks developed their own syllabic alphabet (the earlier Greek writing system, Linear B, disappeared during the Greek Dark Ages). »
• « The earliest surviving Greek literature dates from around 800 - 750 BC thanks to the use of this new alphabet (which, in turn, served as the basis for the Roman alphabet and thence for the alphabets used in all European Latin languages, including English). »
• « An important figure in the history of Eastern Christianity was St. Cyril, who in the 9th century created an alphabet for the Slavic languages, now called Cyrillic and still used in many Slavic languages, including Russian. »
• « Everything is green on the banks of the Nile, the river that gave rise to a letter of our alphabet and also to a hieroglyphic. The "ene", which in hieroglyphic is: ~, owes its shape to that of the river Nile, always undulating. »
• « Until 1991, Yugoslavia consisted of six federative republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. In a territory of just over 225,000 square kilometres, a population with profound internal differences in language, religion, alphabet and cultural tendencies coexisted. »