Mysteries of the alphabet : the origins of writing

著者

• Ouaknin, Marc-Alain

書誌事項

Mysteries of the alphabet : the origins of writing

Marc-Alain Ouaknin ; translated from the French by Josephine Bacon

Abbeville Press, c1999

1st ed

• : pbk.

タイトル別名

Mystères de l'alphabet

統一タイトル

Mystères de l'alphabet

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-375)

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.

目次

• Part I Origin and evolution: brief history of writing
• pictograms, ideograms and phonograms
• the turquoise woman - Protosinaic pictograms
• the example of the letter Aleph
• how Aleph became Alpha. Part II The alphabet. Part III The revolution of archaeography.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA80552646
• ISBN:
  • 0789205238
  • 0789205211
• LCCN: 98044840
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: fre
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: 381 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : P211
  • DC21 : 411
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Alphabet -- History
  • LCSH : Writing -- History