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Pages: 144
Authors: Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-31 - Publisher: Oxbow Books

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Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversit
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
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Pages: 312
Authors: Barry B. Powell
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.
Alpha Beta
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Pages: 338
Authors: John Man
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-31 - Publisher: Random House

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The idea behind the alphabet - that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs - is an extraordinary one. So extraordi
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
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Pages: 404
Authors: Philippa M. Steele
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-10 - Publisher: Oxbow Books

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Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Roger D. Woodard
Categories: Greek language
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Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script - for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology -