Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script - youtube

• How far back in time can you understand English? / HN - And þæt heo sægde wæs eall soþ. Ic ƿifode on hire, and heo ƿæs ful scyne ƿif, ƿis ond ƿælfæst. Ne gemette ic næfre ær sƿylce ƿifman.
• “L’affrication” et autres fricatives prépausales - ces sons fantômes qui hantent notre langage
  • visible sur l’histoire des langues - camera => cham’br’e en francais alors que le latin n’avait pas de son ‘B’.
  • Bonjour’e
  • Merci-sh
• The hidden logic behind #, @, & and §

  • # is pound - abrevation of libra - or hash, as the mark of hashed wood

    • # not the same as sharp which also comes from b

  • & - is et and wordized as ampersend
  • § signum sectonis - section sign - also call the silcrow (vs the pilcrow ¶ / paragraph)
  • • asterisk in greek little start
  • 👉 Manicule - little hand

see also

• [Writing Systems of the World

  Abjads, Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries & Logosyllabaries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmz42awTRsA)

• The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
• Why English doesn’t use accents
• Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city - Alphabet 2,400 BCE
  • Many cultures never invent writing. From well-known 1969 research on 186 pre-industrial societies - 0 - 39.2%: No writing
    • 37.1%: Pictures only
    • 23.7%: Writing

Wooden structures 476,000 BCE
Sailing 100,000 BCE
Drawing 73,000 BCE
Counting 60,000 BCE
Medicine 40,000 BCE
… Writing 3,200 BCE
Alphabet 2,400 BCE