who invented letters and words??
2006-07-07 08:24:12 · 7 answers · asked by Dreamy Girl 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
nobody invtented letters and words... they developed from hand gestures and signs throughout time... Languages came from mixes of previous languages before them...
2006-07-07 08:28:21 · answer #1 · answered by hispanicbro77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is a little more complicated than it seems.... it's hard to say exactly who started writing things down first to denote words, it was most likely either the Sumerians (early cuneiform) or the Egyptians (hieroglyphs), but their writings were not pure "alphabets" because they often used logograms to denote words, not just sounds.
The first pure alphabet probably came from Semites in Egypt... it was the first alphabet we know of that purely used letters as we know them and connected them together to make words.
As for modern languages, many tend to be direct decendents of either the Aramaic script (Eastern scripts) or the Pheonecian script (Greek, which then was borrowed by Latin and Cyrillic).
2006-07-07 15:54:00 · answer #2 · answered by smokingun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person that write the letter by word.
2006-07-07 15:28:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient Sumerians invented the first known written language, cuneiform.
2006-07-07 15:27:29 · answer #4 · answered by Crackotage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The aphabet that we currently use has is roots in the roman language, but most of the words are from a collection of all the different languages in our culture. Simple answer from a simple guy!
2006-07-07 15:31:17 · answer #5 · answered by GRUMPY1LUVS2EAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Webster?????
2006-07-07 15:27:51 · answer #6 · answered by Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well i am not one for blowing my own trumpet (because my ribs get in the way............lol)............
2006-07-07 15:28:03 · answer #7 · answered by sam_keane_uk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋