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Have you ever wondered what the evaluation of languages looked like?

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This image is amazing....I always knew that languages came from each other but I never had it visualized. Kudos to the amazing designer who made this image! As we all know, the Greek language provided the basis for many alphabets and languages around the world. Nonetheless, Greece is unlike any language that exists today and it not based on any other languages like Romance Languages for example (Spanish, Italian, etc.). If anyone has other language resources, please feel free to share with me :)

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From Greek to Latin: Visualizing the Evolution of the Alphabet

The Greek alphabet is just one part of the modern alphabet’s long evolution.
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francescool said:
This image is amazing....I always knew that languages came from each other but I never had it visualized. Kudos to the amazing designer who made this image! As we all know, the Greek language provided the basis for many alphabets and languages around the world. Nonetheless, Greece is unlike any language that exists today and it not based on any other languages like Romance Languages for example (Spanish, Italian, etc.). If anyone has other language resources, please feel free to share with me :)

www.visualcapitalist.com

From Greek to Latin: Visualizing the Evolution of the Alphabet

The Greek alphabet is just one part of the modern alphabet’s long evolution.
www.visualcapitalist.com www.visualcapitalist.com
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I liked your post and the idea of visualizing............,but, ,as you know, there is a great difference between the evolution of languages and the evolution of the alphabets of languages. I myself have done some work on the generation of Indo-European languages, but unfortunately a visualization chart [necessarily by means of alphabetical writing] would not assist the reader; like an etymologist, he must re-enact the spoken languages. [I haven't found yet a suitable publisher for my manuscript of etymologies, :INDO-EUROPEAN AND ITS SPEAKERS , sub-titled: Indo-European is Greek.]
 
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I liked your post and the idea of visualizing............,but, ,as you know, there is a great difference between the evolution of languages and the evolution of the alphabets of languages. I myself have done some work on the generation of Indo-European languages, but unfortunately a visualization chart [necessarily by means of alphabetical writing] would not assist the reader; like an etymologist, he must re-enact the spoken languages. [I haven't found yet a suitable publisher for my manuscript of etymologies, :INDO-EUROPEAN AND ITS SPEAKERS , sub-titled: Indo-European is Greek.]
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Ahhhh, I see. It defintley looks more simple than it actually is in this chart
 
This is an interesting resource for sure! I don't believe the Phoenician language is actually in the same language family as Greek and Latin. The article did a great job helping us visualize the alphabet similarities. But, the story is a bit more complicated than that.

As one user said, language evolution and alphabet evolution are two different things entirely. Phoenician language isn't part of the same language family as Greek (in fact, I think they both sit on different language branches entirely). But, I think it is interesting the influence the Phoenicians had in terms of alphabet evolution.
 
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