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History of the alphabet
Proto-Sinaitic alphabet 19 c. BCE
Ugaritic 15 c. BCE
Proto-Canaanite 14 c. BCE
Phoenician 12 c. BCE
Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE
Samaritan 6 c. BCE
Aramaic 8 c. BCE
Kharoṣṭhī 6 c. BCE
Brāhmī 6 c. BCE
Brahmic family (see)
e.g. Devanagari 13 c. CE
Hebrew 3 c. BCE
Thaana 4 c. BCE
Pahlavi 3 c. BCE
Avestan 4 c. CE
Palmyrene 2 c. BCE
Syriac 2 c. BCE
Sogdian 2 c. BCE
Orkhon (Old Turkic) 6 c. CE
Old Hungarian ca. 650
Old Uyghur
Mongolian 1204 hh
Nabataean 2 c. BCE
Arabic 4 c. CE
Mandaic 2 c. CE
Greek 8 c. BCE
Etruscan 8 c. BCE
Latin 7 c. BCE
Runic 2 c. CE
Coptic 3 c. CE
Gothic 3 c. CE
Armenian 405
Georgian ca. 430 CE
Glagolitic 862
Cyrillic ca. 940
Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE
Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE
Ge’ez 5–6 c. BCE
Meroitic (from Egyptian) 3 c. BCE
Ogham 4 c. CE
Hangul (partly from Brahmic) 1443
Zhuyin (aka Bopomofo, from Chinese) 1913
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See also: Etruscan numerals
Etruscan cippus (grave marker) from the necropolis Crocifisso del Tufo outside Orvieto, Italy, side view showing the inscription in the Old Italic (Etruscan) alphabet.
It is not clear whether the process of adaptation from the Greek alphabet took place in Italy from the first colony of Greeks, the city of Cumae, or in Greece/Asia Minor. It was in any case a Western Greek alphabet. In the alphabets of the West, X had the sound value [ks], Ψ stood for [kʰ]; in Etruscan: X = [s], Ψ = [kʰ] or [kχ] (Rix 202-209).
The earliest Etruscan abecedarium, the Marsiliana d'Albegna (near Grosseto) tablet which dates to c. 700 BC, lists 26 letters corresponding to contemporary forms of the Greek alphabet which retained san and qoppa but which had not yet developed omega.
Comparison of the Western Greek alphabet with archaic and classical Etruscan variants.
𐌀
𐌁
𐌂
𐌃
𐌄
𐌅
𐌆
𐌇
𐌈
𐌉
𐌊
𐌋
𐌌
𐌍
𐌎
𐌏
𐌐
𐌑
𐌒
𐌓
𐌔
𐌕
𐌖
𐌗
𐌘
𐌙
in transliteration,
A
B
G
D
E
V
Z
H
Θ
I
K
L
M
N
Ξ
O
P
Ś
Q
R
S
T
Y
X
Φ
Ψ
Until about 600 BC, the archaic form of the Etruscan alphabet remained practically unchanged, and the direction of writing was free. From the 6th century, however, evolutions of the alphabet took place, guided by the phonology of the Etruscan language, and letters representing phonemes nonexistent in Etruscan were dropped. By 400 BC, it appears that all of Etruria was using the classical Etruscan alphabet of 20 letters, mostly written from left to right:
𐌀
𐌂
𐌃
𐌄
𐌅
𐌆
𐌇
𐌈
𐌉
𐌋
𐌌
𐌍
𐌐
𐌑
𐌓
𐌔
𐌕
𐌖
𐌘
𐌙
𐌚
A
C
D
E
V
Z
H
Θ
I
L
M
N
P
Ś
R
S
T
U
Φ
Ψ
F
An additional sign 𐌚, in shape similar to the numeral 8, transcribed as F, was present in both Lydian and Etruscan (Jensen 513). Its origin is disputed; it may have been an altered B or H or an ex novo creation (Rix 202). Its sound value was /f/ and it replaced the Etruscan FH. Some letters were, on the other hand, falling out of use: B and D were apparently considered superfluous over P and T. K was dropped in favour of G (also transcribed as C). O disappeared and was replaced by U. In the course of its simplification, the redundant letters showed some tendency towards a syllabary: C, K and Q were predominantly used in the contexts CE, KA, QU.
This classical alphabet remained in use until the 2nd century BC when it began to be contaminated by the rise of the Latin alphabet. Soon after the Etruscan language itself became extinct.
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| Oscan alphabet | |
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The Osci probably adopted the archaic Etruscan alphabet during the 7th century BC, but a recognizably Oscan variant of the alphabet is attested only from the 5th century BC; its sign inventory extended over the classical Etruscan alphabet by the introduction of long vowel variants of I and U, transcribed as Í and Ú. U came to be used to represent Oscan o, while Ú was used for actual Oscan u.
𐌀
𐌁
𐌂
𐌃
𐌄
𐌅
𐌆
𐌇
𐌈
𐌋
𐌌
𐌍
𐌐
𐌑
𐌓
𐌔
𐌕
𐌖
𐌚
𐌞
𐌝
A
B
G
D
E
V
Z
H
I
L
M
N
P
Ś
R
S
T
U
F
Ú
Í
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| Alphabet of Nuceria | |
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The Nucerian alphabet is based on inscriptions found in southern Italy (Nocera Superiore, Sorrento, Vico Equense and others places). It is attested only between the 6th and the 5th century BC. The most important sign is the /S/, shaped like a fir tree, and possibly a derivation from the Phoenician alphabet.
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| Alphabet of Lugano | |
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The Alphabet of Lugano, based on inscriptions found in northern Italy and Canton Ticino, was used to record Lepontic inscriptions, among the oldest testimonies of any Celtic language, in use from the 7th to the 5th centuries BC. The alphabet has 17 letters, derived from the archaic Etruscan alphabet:
𐌀
𐌄
𐌉
𐌊
𐌋
𐌌
𐌍
𐌏
𐌐
𐌓
𐌔
𐌕
𐌈
𐌖
𐌅
𐌗
𐌆
A
E
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
Θ
U
V
X
Z
The alphabet does not distinguish voiced and unvoiced occlusives, i.e. P represents /b/ or /p/, T is for /t/ or /d/, K for /g/ or /k/. Z is probably for /ts/. U /u/ and V /w/ are distinguished. Θ is probably for /t/ and X for /g/. There are claims of a related script discovered in Glozel.
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| Raetic alphabets | |
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The alphabets of Este (Venetic), Magrè and Bolzano/Bozen-Sanzeno (Raetic), Sondrio (Camunic), Lugano (Lepontic)
The alphabet of Sanzeno (also, of Bolzano), about 100 Raetic inscriptions.
The alphabet of Magrè (near Schio), east Raetian inscriptions.
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| Latin alphabet | |
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Duenos inscription, 6th century BC
Main article: History of the Latin alphabet
21 of the 26 archaic Etruscan letters were adopted for Old Latin from the 7th century BC, either directly from the Cumae alphabet, or via archaic Etruscan forms, compared to the classical Etruscan alphabet retaining B, D, K, O, Q, X but dropping Θ, Ś, Φ, Ψ, F (Etruscan U is Latin V, Etruscan V is Latin F).
𐌀
𐌁
𐌂
𐌃
𐌄
𐌅
𐌆
𐌇
𐌉
𐌊
𐌋
𐌌
𐌍
𐌏
𐌐
𐌒
𐌓
𐌔
𐌕
𐌖
𐌗
A
B
C
D
E
F
Z
H
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
V
X
[edit] Tags:Duenos Inscription,History Of The Latin Alphabet,Old Latin,Cumae Alphabet, | |
| Unicode | |
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The Old Italic alphabets were unified and added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2001 with the release of version 3.1.
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| Block | |
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The Unicode block for Old Italic is U+10300–U+1032F without specification of a particular alphabet (i.e. the Old Italic alphabets are considered equivalent, and the font used will determine the variant).
Writing direction (right-to-left, left-to-right, or boustrophedon) varies based on the language and even the time period. For simplicity most scholars use left-to-right and this is the Unicode default direction for the Old Italic block. For this reason, the glyphs in the code chart are shown with left-to-right orientation.
Old Italic[1]
Unicode.org chart (PDF)
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
U+1030x
𐌀
𐌁
𐌂
𐌃
𐌄
𐌅
𐌆
𐌇
𐌈
𐌉
𐌊
𐌋
𐌌
𐌍
𐌎
𐌏
U+1031x
𐌐
𐌑
𐌒
𐌓
𐌔
𐌕
𐌖
𐌗
𐌘
𐌙
𐌚
𐌛
𐌜
𐌝
𐌞
U+1032x
𐌠
𐌡
𐌢
𐌣
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 6.1
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| Letters with Transliteration | |
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Letter
Translit.
Name
Letter
Translit.
Name
Letter
Translit.
Name
𐌀
a
a
𐌁
b
be
𐌂
c
ke
𐌃
d
de
𐌄
e
e
𐌅
v
ve
𐌆
z
ze
𐌇
h
he
𐌈
þ
the
𐌉
i
i
𐌊
k
ka
𐌋
l
el
𐌌
m
em
𐌍
n
en
𐌎
š
esh
𐌏
o
o
𐌐
p
pe
𐌑
ś
she
𐌒
q
ku
𐌓
r
er
𐌔
s
es
𐌕
t
te
𐌖
u
u
𐌗
x
eks
𐌘
ph
phe
𐌙
ch
khe
𐌚
f
ef
𐌛
ř
ers
𐌜
ç
che
𐌝
í
ii
𐌞
ú
uu
𐌠
I
1
𐌡
V
5
𐌢
X
10
𐌣
L
50
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