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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/833471584 Title: Mysteries of the alphabet : the origins of writing Author: Marc-Alain Ouaknin Publisher: New York [u.a.] Abbeville Press 1999 ISBN/ISSN: 0789205211 9780789205216 0789205238 9780789205230 OCLC:833471584

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Mysteries of the alphabet : the origins of writing

Author:	Marc-Alain Ouaknin
Publisher:	New York [u.a.] Abbeville Press 1999
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1. edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the Read more...
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Subjects	Alphabet -- History Geschichte
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Marc-Alain Ouaknin Find more information about:
ISBN:	0789205211 9780789205216 0789205238 9780789205230
OCLC Number:	833471584
Notes:	Bibliography
Description:	381 S Ill 22 cm
Contents:	Part I Origin and evolution: brief history of writing; pictograms, ideograms and phonograms; the turquoise woman - Protosinaic pictograms; the example of the letter Aleph; how Aleph became Alpha. Part II The alphabet. Part III The revolution of archaeography.
Other Titles:	Mystères de l'alphabet
Responsibility:	Marc-Alain Ouaknin. Transl. from the French by Josephine Bacon

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