The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)

Video

by NativLang
published on 09 October 2017

Send to Google Classroom:

Your vowels were invented in Greece, giving birth to the first "true" alphabet.

Watch as your new toga-clad friend turns your consonant abjad into a consonant-vowel alphabet. It's such a useful mapping of letters to sounds that neighbor civilizations borrow it left and right. It even evolves into the letters you're reading right now.

As useful as the Greek alphabet is, this isn't where the history of writing ends. There are even more inventions in store for written language!

Remove Ads

License

Original video by NativLang. Embedded by John Horgan, published on 09 October 2017. Please check the original source(s) for copyright information. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

The video and its description text are provided by Youtube. This website claims no authorship of this content; we are republishing it for educational purposes.

Cite This Work

APA Style

NativLang, . (2017, October 09). The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet). World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/video/1291/the-day-the-greeks-invented-vowels---history-of-wr/

Chicago Style

NativLang, . "The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified October 09, 2017. https://www.worldhistory.org/video/1291/the-day-the-greeks-invented-vowels---history-of-wr/.