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@ingram ¿Alfabeto inglés? Mejor dicho alfabeto latino o romano evolucionado. En inglés puede que & o el '
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayuda:Sistemas_de_escritura#Alfabeto_latino
@hermesgabriel Perhaps original artist said English alphabet because no diactrics/accents on letters?
This "Evolution of the English Alphabet" chart is very nifty. I had no idea that every non-symmetric letter in the Roman alphabet got mirrored at some point.
@Terrana the Phoenician alphabet (just like many of its descendants: Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic etc) was written right-to-left, so the letters "pointed" left
early Greek (with alphabet based on Phoenician) and Latin inscriptions still used right-to-left, boustraphedon (right-left-right-left-...), or whatever-direction-the-writer-feels-like, with letters always pointing forward
so the letters didn't flip per se, the writing direction did
@kiilas Oho! That actually makes perfect sense.
@ingram That sudden mirroring is weird, I wonder who decided on that ☺️
It also seems like there is a mistake with the "I" and the "Z". A letter that looks a lot like a "z" becomes the "i" and vice-versa. But I assume the person that made the chart knows better 😁
@ingram this is so nicely laid out. Thanks!
@ingram very cool
@ingram Suggesting that 'Modern English' invented J V and W is pretty weird :/
So much missing from this chart.
@ingram Have you considered adding in all the fun anglo-saxon stuff that got dropped when the Normans showed up? (Þ, ð, etc.)
@ucblockhead This isn't my chart -- it was a retweet/copy from Twitter (details at the bottom). Having thorn etc would be nice though
@ingram I REALLY ENJOY THE DEAD LETTERS.
@ingram
#hug
Thank you