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Apr 1, 1000
Phoenicians made thier own language (1800BC)
At 1800BC the Phoenicians discovered a language that just had pictures.They were very confused so they made there own language using those pictures, each picture stood for a word or syllable. -
Period: Apr 6, 1000 to
The Evolution of the Alphabet
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Apr 7, 1000
Pheonician traders bringing the alphabet to most of the world 1800 (BC)
when greek knew that the Phoenicians discovered a language the were to know that language.After a month later some Phoenician traders brought the alphabet to North Africa and Greece and soon after that Greek traders brought it to northern Italy, where both the Romans and the Etruscans began to use it too. In Egypt and West Asia, -
Apr 9, 1030
The Earliest Writting 1800 BC
Writing in Egypt goes back to pretty much the earliest writing anywhere. Nobody really knows yet whether the Egyptians figured out how to write for themselves, or whether they learned it from the Phoenicians.The Egyptian form of writing, hieroglyphs, does not look the same or work the same as the Phoenicians. -
Apr 6, 1040
The Aramic languge 1800 (BC)
After some years later a few people from modern Israel and Lebanon traveled down to northern Egypt to trade and to work in the turquoise mines at Serabit.These Canaanites didn't know how to read or write, but when they saw Egyptian hieroglyphs, they got interested in writing down their own language. They used simple versions of the Egyptian hieroglyphs to stand for sounds in their own language - Aramaic. -
Apr 7, 1090
The West Asian language 1800 BC
West Asia is probably the first place where people figured out how to write, though Egyptian people began writing very soon afterwards. People seem to have begun to write in Mesopota miaduring the time of the Sumerians. The Sumerians, and their successors wrote in a kind of signs called cuneiform and each sign stands for a syllable of a word of course with a different sign for every syllable, you have to have a whole lot of signs, many more than we have letters in the Roman alphabet. -
Apr 3, 1110
The old Roman language 1800 (BC)
The Roman Empire lasted for more than a thousand years, so there was plenty of time to produce a lot of writing. Latin, an Indo-European language, was written in an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet, with some letters changed: the Latin or Roman alphabet is essentially the one Americans use today. English-speakers have added the letters J and U and W.Most of what was written during those thousand years has been lost, but a fair amount still survives and we can read it today. -
Apr 7, 1170
The Chinease alphabet 1800 BC
People in China began writing about 1500 BC, more than a thousand years later than people in West Asia or Egypt, but earlier than anyone in Europe, Africa, or Central America. The earliest writing that we know of from China was on animal bones, which are called "oracle bones" because priests used them to tell the future. The writing on these oracle bones is the same writing that people use in modern China, just in an earlier version. The signs they used came from pictures, like earlier Egyptian -
Apr 7, 1173
The Ancient indian alphabet 200 BC
One of the earliest known writing systems came from India,Unfortunately,people couldn't read the Harappan writing yet. But we know people were using this writing to mark their property, so other people couldn’t steal it, and to keep track of things. The writing was in pictographs, like Egyptian hieroglyphs.After the Aryan invasion the Harappan writing was forgotten, and nobody in India could write at all for the next thousand years. -
Apr 7, 1200
The English and Arabic Language 300 BC
from 1960 to taday the English and Arabic language was discovered and mostly every where in the whole world people have been using this language very much and now it is very easy to learn both languages espically the language english and the word alphabet come from greek and Pheonicians from the words alphs and beta and alphe and betha
