Evolution of the alphabet

Taniria · 2012-09-04T14:52:20+00:00

Didn't they miss Å Ä Ö ?

mbafk · 2012-09-04T14:11:20+00:00

This was made by a University of Maryland Prof. Source.

SnowingSwede · 2012-09-04T15:18:31+00:00

Where the fuck is my Ö?

Greymor · 2012-09-04T12:19:54+00:00

IMGUR!

IncidentOn57thStreet · 2012-09-04T15:32:07+00:00

I wonder what that grid like one sounded like.

trampus1 · 2012-09-04T16:22:07+00:00

Even in a gif of the alphabet, OP is isolated.

lavoiebelle · 2012-09-04T14:34:44+00:00

I never thought I would sit and stare at letters for so long and kind of enjoy it.

SpaceCampDropOut · 2012-09-04T15:38:29+00:00

Any given reason to why the Greeks 500 BCE would take some of the already "common" letters, and flip them?

TheDesertFox · 2012-09-04T15:36:20+00:00

A German manuscript page teaching use of Arabic numerals

mercurialsaliva · 2012-09-04T15:50:47+00:00

Go Phoenicia!

TheBishopsBane · 2012-09-04T16:20:28+00:00

Anyone who likes this kind of stuff should check out Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet from A to Z by David Sacks

kimbrough · 2012-09-04T16:33:36+00:00

/r/linguistics is nice if you enjoy this kind of stuff, i'm just a lurker there though, don't wanna bother anyone with retarded questions/posts lol

cyport · 2012-09-04T16:14:27+00:00

If and when will we see a new letter added?

phliuy · 2012-09-04T16:35:06+00:00

Also, you would often see a "U" in the place of a V in early latin. God I hated that. I would be reading perfectly, and then all of a sudden this scumbag u pops up out of nowhere and throws me off. Fucking U. I hate U.

Mernercreft · 2012-09-04T16:41:36+00:00

Hey,where is Č and Ć ?:)

9bowlsofsoup · 2012-09-04T16:43:31+00:00

Someone should put Unown alphabet to this pic.

HappyLittleTetrad · 2012-09-04T16:45:53+00:00

Pretty nifty!

Bulleta · 2012-09-04T16:49:18+00:00

Even then, they left out Thorn (and only had a capital Eth, but didn't show how it evolved, even though the ancestor of it was there). More importantly, the long S, which we used up until last century, was completely ignored, so its main descendant (the ß) was not present either.

I would have loved to see a more animated struggle on Gamma morphing into the present C by butting in on Kappa's business, but how would you animate that?

Capsuna · 2012-09-04T16:58:12+00:00

a wild faggot appears circa 500 BC

Theemuts · 2012-09-04T17:06:21+00:00

This doesn't account for the letter rho in the Greek alphabet which strongly resembles the letter P in the Latin alphabet.

calvin0821 · 2012-09-04T17:07:20+00:00

Neat

toomanylizards · 2012-09-04T17:31:12+00:00

you know people from Phoenix are Phoenicians.

pingthepong · 2012-09-04T17:49:40+00:00

This explains all the backwards letters I write. In my past life I was Phoenician.

sladoid · 2012-09-04T17:52:03+00:00

Why no Sanskrit? That shits early evolution!

commom_username · 2012-09-04T18:50:31+00:00

thank you - you have no idea how this will help me in college (graphic designer)

abow · 2012-09-04T19:27:13+00:00

If W came from V why is it called "double U?"

this_sort_of_thing · 2012-09-04T15:51:22+00:00

Well, evolution of the English Alphabet, mostly.

EricWRN · 2012-09-04T16:10:16+00:00

FUCK OFF that is the greatest thing I've EVER SEEN

ckolev · 2012-09-04T12:47:31+00:00

That was nice :) GJ

iaacp · 2012-09-04T15:56:13+00:00

A+ gif. I like how it pauses a long time at the end.

shiv96 · 2012-09-04T15:53:28+00:00

The GIF is annoying. Too damn slow.

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