THE EVOLUTION OF THE ALPHABETSaif Al Suwaidi

Grade 3ETeacher: Mr. Simpson

The Phoenicians discovery

The Phoenicians discovery was the alphabet and that was when the first language was discovered.

Phoenician traderswhen Greek knew that the Phoenicians discovered a language the were to know that language. After a month later some Phoenician traders brought the alphabet to North Africa and Greece.

The Earliest WrittingWriting in Egypt goes back to pretty much the earliest writing anywhere. Nobody really knows yet whether the Egyptians figured out how to write for themselves, or if they learned it from the Phoenician

The Aramic languageThese Canaanites didn't know how to read or write, but when they saw Egyptian hieroglyphs, they got interested in writing down their own language. They used simple versions of the Egyptian hieroglyphs to stand for sounds in their own language - Aramaic.

The West Asian language

West Asia is probably not the first place where people figured out how to write, though Egyptian people began writing very soon afterwards. People seem to have begun to write in Mesopotamia during the time of the Sumerians.

The Roman languageThe Roman Empire lasted for more than a thousand years, so there was plenty of time to produce a lot of writing. Latin, an Indo-European language, was written in an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet, with some letters changed: the Latin or Roman alphabet is essentially the one Americans use today. English-speakers have added the letters J and U and W.

The Chinese language

People in China began writing about 1500 BC, more than a thousand years later than people in West Asia or Egypt, but earlier than anyone in Europe, Africa, or Central America. The earliest writing that we know of from China was on animal bones,

The Indian languageOne of the earliest known writing systems came from India, Unfortunately, people couldn't read the Harappan writing yet. But we know people were using this writing to mark their property, so other people couldn’t steal it, and to keep track of things.

The English and Arabic language

from 1960 to today the English and Arabic language was discovered and mostly every where people have been using this language very much