Origins of the alphabet : proceedings of the First Polis Institute Interdisciplinary Conference /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
French
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11908612
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Other authors / contributors:Rico, Christophe, 1962-
Attucci, Claudia.
ISBN:1443883476
9781443883474
1443877468
9781443877466
Notes:International conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contains essays in English and essays in French.
Print version record.
Summary:Despite the fact that writing has arisen independently many times in various different regions of the world, including Egypt, Sumer, China, and Mexico, the concept of the alphabet was invented only once, somewhere between Egypt and Phoenicia, with all known alphabets going back to this single source. While it is possible, up to a certain point, for scholars to provide an answer as to how the alphabet came about, it is much more difficult to understand the cause of its origin: why did it come about? In February 2013 Polis - the Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities invited some of the.
Other form:Print version: Origins of the alphabet. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 1443877468 9781443877466

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