Monday, July 12, 2010

Alphabet Evolutions

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
~Thomas Hume

Dr. Robert Fradkin teaches a class on the history of alphabets, and this is his site, which contains amazing graphics showing the evolution of certain alphabets from others:
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html

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