Origins of the Alphabet: 26 Stories in 9 Minutes
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🪓👁️🐍 Axes and eyeballs and snakes. Oh my! Here are 26 stories about the alphabet your teacher never told you. Share in the comments which ones you already knew!
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0:00 – Intro
0:20 – The Letters
0:22 – A
0:39 – B
0:52 – C
1:07 – D
1:22 – E
1:42 – F
2:24 – G
2:52 – H
3:27 – I
3:45 – J
4:09 – K
4:23 – L
4:41 – M
5:00 – N
5:17 – O
5:38 – P
6:02 – Q
6:26 – R
6:54 – S
7:24 – T
7:39 – U
7:54 – V
8:03 – W
8:19 – X
8:37 – Y
8:47 – Z
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Greeks and Romans tip everything😂
Because they write the other way from phoenicians and jews
Thank you for this insightful content.
Glad you like it!
I wish you had subtitles on your very educative videos 😍. As a Turkish i hardly understand some British accented words 😢
I use the auto-generated subtitles and they work well. All the best to you.
@lisilonglegs thanks dear 🌼. I also use the atomatic translator , but especially the words that i can’t hear clearly are being wrongly typed there as well.
Çok güzel 🇹🇷 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
As someone who used to share an apartment with two Turkish students in my college days, I never really understood how you guys could basically make one super long word that would mean something that would take like 5 words to say in English. That is, until I learned what the word “agglutinative” means.
@Daniel Miller 😅🤩🤣
Amazing, I didn’t realize the alphabets of the ancient world were that close to each especially to Egyptian. I guess it all came down to poor handwriting or hand carving.
I’ve heard many times that writting was invented only 4 or 5 times, and then other cultures later adapted what their neighbors used to write for their languages…
– so hiragana/katakana were created from hanzi simplified overtime;
– Mayan, and the Otomi writting adapted by the Aztecs allegedly evolved (with multiple inbetween steps and diversions from each other) from Olmec writting;
– hangul was copied from horyig, which was adapted for the Yuan rulers by the tibetans monks, who adapted a couple north-indian scripts to their language, which all evolved from greek letters from the time of Alexander (or before) and it then links to this video 😅
…etc.
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This is fascinating! (And weird–shoutout to Kronk.) Really fun to see how the letters came about.
i thought the V sound associated with the letter originated in the late latin period
Great video as always, just a bit too fast paced. I wanted to stop it several times and think through what I’ve just learnt.. other than that, thanks 😊
Really interesting! Thank you!
Mama says the letter F came from an alligator that got a fig stuck its teeth and got sad.
5:34 The Omega.
so I’m pretty sure 4 of those 5 letters that came from the same root are gonna be F V W and U but idk what the last one is.
it ended up being the letter that looked exactly like the symbol you used to show F imagine that lol
whY? Unless you were being sarcastic
no I genuinely did not think of Y
I learn so much with your videos
If you did this same concept except on the Chinese or Japanese writing systems: 33942 stories in 12297 minutes
Haha!!
If so many letters flipped are because ancient greek was written in boustrophedon.
Fascinating! As an American I have wondered why we say “Zee” when everyone else (speaking English )says “zed”. ?
In Hebrew, camel is “gamal,” and gimel is the letter ג. So, the letter and word are easy to remember: ג for גמל.
House is pronounced “bite” or “ba-it,” and the B/V sound is the letter “Beit:” בּ/ב
Could you do a video for each of the letters?
so it is in fact real that W was formed from merging two Us, that has been a made up thing in my head for long
Fun!!