Typography History Research
Advantages of the alphabet
• Easy to learn, as it requires relatively few characters.
• Easy to incorporate new words into existing language.
• Adaptable for use of new languages.
Disadvantages of the alphabet
• Easy to learn, which makes the ability to write less powerful.
• Need to understand spoken language to read.
• As spoken language changes, it becomes divorced from spoken language
The Phoenicians lived in city-states in the area of modern Lebanon, in the same way as the Sumerians and Greeks. They are notable because they both developed the alphabet, and spread it through their trading activities around the Mediterranean from about 1550
BCE to 300 BCE. Probably descended from hieratic Egyptian, but influenced by Sumerian styles. Known as North Semitic alphabet.
Phoenicians were traders at time when most peoples were exploiters of natural resources, and they spread the abjad (or alphabet) as they went...Greek, Etruscan, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Scandinavian runes, probably Sanskrit, Burmese, Cambodian, etc., and the form of the alphabet we use: the Modern Roman alphabet.
Old Italic, based on Greek, refers to an extinct alphabet system used on the Italian Peninsula and that spread around Europe until the Romans.
Its variants includes things like Runic alphabets and most importantly, Etruscan.
Gothic: Two traditions of Roman capital letters, square being more formal and wider, with Rustic being simpler and narrower. a word applying to the architecture and art as well as the manuscript hand and typeforms originating i n the time between the Carolingian writing reforms and the 15th century.
Holy Roman Empire: Pertaining to the rule of much of Europe by the Frankish king Charlemagne.
Charlemagne, aka Carolus Magnus, who was responsible for copying many classical Roman and Greek documents, and encouraging the education of children. He also was responsible for regularizing the writing style of much
of
• Easy to learn, as it requires relatively few characters.
• Easy to incorporate new words into existing language.
• Adaptable for use of new languages.
Disadvantages of the alphabet
• Easy to learn, which makes the ability to write less powerful.
• Need to understand spoken language to read.
• As spoken language changes, it becomes divorced from spoken language
The Phoenicians lived in city-states in the area of modern Lebanon, in the same way as the Sumerians and Greeks. They are notable because they both developed the alphabet, and spread it through their trading activities around the Mediterranean from about 1550
BCE to 300 BCE. Probably descended from hieratic Egyptian, but influenced by Sumerian styles. Known as North Semitic alphabet.
Phoenicians were traders at time when most peoples were exploiters of natural resources, and they spread the abjad (or alphabet) as they went...Greek, Etruscan, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Scandinavian runes, probably Sanskrit, Burmese, Cambodian, etc., and the form of the alphabet we use: the Modern Roman alphabet.
Old Italic, based on Greek, refers to an extinct alphabet system used on the Italian Peninsula and that spread around Europe until the Romans.
Its variants includes things like Runic alphabets and most importantly, Etruscan.
Gothic: Two traditions of Roman capital letters, square being more formal and wider, with Rustic being simpler and narrower. a word applying to the architecture and art as well as the manuscript hand and typeforms originating i n the time between the Carolingian writing reforms and the 15th century.
Holy Roman Empire: Pertaining to the rule of much of Europe by the Frankish king Charlemagne.
Charlemagne, aka Carolus Magnus, who was responsible for copying many classical Roman and Greek documents, and encouraging the education of children. He also was responsible for regularizing the writing style of much
of