2006-09-09 11:25:27 · 10 answers · asked by bestofarmani 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The letters of the alphabet grew from hieroglyphs. Which were arranged in order of religious hierarchy. From there came the basic order, tho thru time they have been rearranged and added to. Alpha and Beta are the first two letters of the Greek letter arrangement. From it we get the word Alphabet.
2006-09-09 14:47:54 · answer #1 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By about 1000 B.C., the Phoenicians had developed a simple alphabet made up of 22 letters. Vowels were later added by the Greeks. Later the Greek version of the alphabet was adapted by the Romans for writing Latin, and this form is the basis of what we use today to write English.
2006-09-09 18:53:04 · answer #2 · answered by tampagirl1015 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually no one sat down one day and wrote out the A, B, C's. Over a period of a thousand years or more the rules of English were drawn up and governed by Scholars from major schools, growing as the language grew. Adding and changing letters as the Alphabet changed. From Saxon to Norman to "english" etc. Thus taking their last and final form. Even so, every 10 years or so, the english language over goes a tremendous overhaul with word's such as "soccerish, cool, hot, and rad" being added, changed and deleted from the dictionaries. So, English is considered a living language and in 300 years may not even be similiar to what we speak today.
2006-09-09 19:11:55 · answer #3 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Question. I'm sure it was based on a previous alphabet like the greek one. However the must've been some reason the first alphabet was organized the way it was.
2006-09-09 18:32:55 · answer #4 · answered by Penelope's Mom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, language isn't that easy to trace back. It's obvious that our letters derived from the Latin, which derived from the Greek (Alpha, Beta... Omega). I couldn't tell you what the Greek derived from, but I'm sure people will tell you Phoenician or Egyption Heiroglyphs.
In other words, it's not like one man said one day "let me make an alphabet". Languages develop very slowly.
2006-09-09 18:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by marklin1972 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's more troubling is that the typewriter keyboard ("QWERTY") that has been a standard the standard for nearly 100 years was established to simultaneously provide both the greatest manual discomfort and the most significant potential to injure yourself; the standard keyboard contains the largest spatial distance possible between characters pairs judged most likely to follow one another.
2006-09-09 22:10:15 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew Noselli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Question!
2006-09-09 18:28:35 · answer #7 · answered by sashlou 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa. In this case, you're asking for more than we can give you!
2006-09-09 18:30:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
b/c the person who invented the alphabet decide to go in that order!! duh!!! lol
2006-09-09 18:32:03 · answer #9 · answered by Brittany 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just becasuse they did!
2006-09-09 18:27:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋