Alpha beta: how our alphabet shaped the Western world

di John Man

2009 · 335 pagine · Bantam · ISBN 9780553819656

Trama

An alphabet is a system for organising and recording thought and the very earliest letters, which demonstrate this ('a' was the first sound of the Semitic word for 'ox', 'b' for 'house'), are still with us, virtually unchanged across the millennia. And while the western world today is divided by languages, it remains largely united by alphabet.

Generi: Storia

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