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The evolution of the Latin alphabet. Larger. (Originally from here.) You can see how the letter G was created from the C (in order to distinguish the voiceless /k/-sound from the voiced /g/). The Z was lost and reintroduced; the Y evolved into the V, and then the original letterform was later reintroduced. The earliest roots of the modern Latin alphabet can possibly be traced through Phoenician to the Proto-Sinaitic glyphs found in Sinai and Egypt, dating all the way back to 1900 BC.

The evolution of the Latin alphabet. Larger. (Originally from here.)

You can see how the letter G was created from the C (in order to distinguish the voiceless /k/-sound from the voiced /g/). The Z was lost and reintroduced; the Y evolved into the V, and then the original letterform was later reintroduced. The earliest roots of the modern Latin alphabet can possibly be traced through Phoenician to the Proto-Sinaitic glyphs found in Sinai and Egypt, dating all the way back to 1900 BC.

dailymeh posted this on June 28, 2011