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Outline the early history of the alphabet and explain its importance
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Outline the early history of the alphabet and explain its importance (Apologies for certain lapses in grammatical English. However, the information is correct and this essay was marked 63%) The early history of writing. The first evidence of writing appears at the end of the 4th. mill. BC. in Mesopotamia and in Egypt. In both areas the forms of the writing were originally pictographic, where a head meant a head, a bowl meant a bowl. Probably it was in the Sumerian part of Mesopotamia that writing was first invented. Very soon it began to develop so that some of the pictures could stand for both things, for actions (a foot could both mean a foot and to walk) and even for sounds. At this stage, writing began to become phonetic, so one sign could mean the first sound of the word illustrated. This both meant that writing became more useful for reaching...
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