Show TRACE ALPHABET FAR BACK belief that it had its lt origin with the th phoenician Phoenicia ns proved to be a wrong one ona in a lecture at the royal institute prof flinders attacked the 0 long accepted theory that the origin of the alphabet la is to be found in phoenicia whence it came from egyptian ble according to professor petrie the th researches of the tha last twenty years year have shown that blons were viere earlier than and that it was the sign that survived to beckma the alpha and beta ot of one civilization and the A B C ot of another just as the philologist had discovered one entire system of 0 languages so 0 o the alphabet arlan had discovered in the thi diversity of alphabets an original prototype of 0 all in professor Pe petriea tries words the phoenicians Phoenicia ns are people of 0 yesterday compared with those who wrote the signs that are the origin of 0 all alphabets it was to pott pottery cry said the professor that egyptologists and others were indebted tor for these si signs a and tout their development we was worked out on these lines made a pot and put a mark on it to show that it was iraq his in time because it was his mark the sign stood for or himself and then the sl sign n became attached to a sound irrespective ot of the thing itself gradually the wearing down went on until the sign stood not tor for ft sounds sound but a syllable and then for a letter the signs ot of course wera not an alphabet that did not arrive until perhaps 1000 B D C whereas signs 1 were found in early prehistoric probably B C proofs of alig common origin were plentiful tor for the signs spread by trade far north and south and appeared similarly in runic iberian and kartan karian and yet were unknown la ili phoenician |