The Origins and Emergence of West Semitic Alphabetic Scripts

An Introduction to J. R. Harris, D. W Hone And To Old Negev
 

WHY DID THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS NOT ADOPT AN ALPHABETIC SYSTEM OF WRITING UNTIL THE FIRST CENTURY AD EVEN
THOUGH THEIR CANAANITE NEIGHBOURS WERE USING A SYSTEM DERIVED FROM HIEROGLYPHS

EIL 199  Deciphering the Human Experience:Writing across Cultures     (Instructor: Numa Markee)
 EIL 199: Source documents from the World Wide Web
EIL 199 Papers and Final Projects Fall semester 1996

[ Early AlphabetsDevelopment of Spoken Language    AZhebraic.html     AZphoenician.html  dead links]

The Ancient World Web

Inventory of Writing Systems MA Lloyd 9 May 1998

Alfabetos de ayer y de hoy    (Última revisión: 8 de agosto de 2001) splendida presentazione riccamente illustrata

    Dal sito Proel[XII -2001]

"PROmotora Española de Lingüística (Proel) es una organización no gubernamental de desarrollo (ONGD) registrada en el Ministerio del Interior, que colabora con varias entidades, especialmente con la organización internacional SIL (SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS, en castellano ILV--INSTITUTO LINGÜÍSTICO DE VERANO), para impulsar el desarrollo lingüístico de las lenguas minoritarias, tanto en España como en el mundo. PROEL también divulga en España las oportunidades de servicio internacional que ofrece el SIL".

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS:  Writing Systems  The Alphabet   (EDWARD J. VAJDA)     [ X - 2002 ]

Maria Giulia Amadasi, The Alphabet: Origins and Diffusion   [X -2002]

"Ancient Scripts of the World"    by Lawrence Lo.    [XII -2001]

 épigraphie créto-mycénienne
 La langue des tablettes et l'évolution de l'écriture

 How to write your own message in Egyptian hieroglyphs

 How to Write Your Name In Maya Glyphs   [XII -2001]

maya
http://www.halfmoon.org/
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Maya.html
http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/mayan.html Say Hello in the Mayan Language
http://killeenroos.com/link/meso.html
http://didaktik.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~pkrahmer/home/maya.html
http://www.kidskonnect.com/AncientMayan/AncientMayanHome.html

Reading in the modern world. Anthropological perspectives on Writing and the virtual world
CSAC (Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing)  Monographs Online 17 - David Zeitlyn - 2001  University of Kent, Canterbury     [X -2002]       Language shifts and the development of syllabic writing: Akkad and Sumer

The Hellenic Alphabet. Origins, Use, and Early Function    by    Eirene Ragousi
           http://users.hol.gr/~ianlos/e014.htm  [VII -2003]

Do Inscriptions in Linear A Script belong to different languages ?    by    J. Faucounau    Mathematician - Member of the Linguistic Society of Paris, France    http://users.hol.gr/~ianlos/v011.htm [VII -2003]
    Minoan Linear A Script. An Early Aeolic Greek Dialect?   http://users.hol.gr/~ianlos/v014.htm [VII -2003]

The Evolution of the Alphabet        with gifs    borrowed from     http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html
 
 
 

http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb96/aeb96_2.html#II.c
http://www.unicode.org/Public/TEXT/UTR-3.TXT