New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1928, Page 11

== onds. Inn, rrow r, of ford, ot ents gned had s of rew. 1 149 HAVE THEIR START Turkey's Change in Letters Re- vives Interest | Washington, D C., June 6.—The decision of Turkey to throw over-| board the alphabet she has used for many centurivs, and to replace it with the alphabet of western Europe | and the Americas, is not so revolu- tionary a step as at first_appears, | according to a bulletin from 1he Washington D. headquarters of the National Geographic Socicty “It is not as if Turkey up- rooting some cherished cnltural growth and setting up in s place a foreign substitute bulletin No true alphabet o found 1n use foday by a pronle who has orig- inated it. When it comes to alpha- bets all the world has horrowed. Tt | is an amazing thing, but the prob- £ human specch into dd sounds and represent- ing them by symbols s been solved only within his- toric times at least—and from this happy bit of analysis and invention 8l the true alphabets in use today appear to have descended were n b ms 1o have onee- English Fr Lat “The English alphabet came di- Iy from the Latin. It is, i fuct same alphabet that Rome used save for such minor ehanges as the addition of a separate J' (the Latin served for both ‘1" and ") and the expansion of the Latin "UV' into VW “The Romans, m turn their alphabet from the ehanging the forms of the somewhat and dropping some char- acters, And the Greeks. as evidence and tradition show. took their letter system from the Phoenicians, even retaining the names with slight variations “In passing the ) v horrow ed Grocks, alphabet through letters | their hand: of its wost to the Phoen consisted solely of The G s ‘tinkered the alphabet so that have 24 letters. They also ¢ cians wrote from right to left; “ks adopted the left to ri western worl Own Alphabet to Ancients “The greatest problems in ian alphabet which ,such as those of the Japanes 2 consonants. further with [ the Athenian version, including vowels, came 1o |(hings and actions. ght di- | conventiona rection now employed by all the con-, nection with the alphabet is to de- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928. T the Greeks gave it one [ture wyiting, symbols such as our close no alphabutic writing; the important additions, | dollar sign or the ideographs of the and syllable characters First Used Pictures e earliest written records we made 1n pictures which ry sented Abstract ideas anged | could be suggested only in the crud- {the dircetion of writing. The Phoeni- lest round-about way. | the After cen- pictures became ch use thes ized into symibol. lan the ideograms of the Ei |and the Mayas of America; and some of those still used in China to- day. “The next step was a marked de- turies of termine where the Phoenicians got | parture from the previous develop- it. There has b theories as to this. It has been |one. variously suggested that the characters were adopted from hieroglyphics and the hierat 22 |not the writ- ing of Kgypt. the cuneiform rhar-i widely divergent |ment and a tremendously important It w to represent by symbols things themselves, but in- the |stead the sounds of the spoken word. wrote his | ¥For the first time man language as he spoke it. The sounds \cters of Babylon, and symbols of |0f entire words were symbolized at the Gre seems st matter. P Iy accepted theory Phoenicians, tamili their trading voy ous cumbersone wround the Mediterrancan, from them such symbols needed. stripped off the Hittites, ks, Cretans No evidence so far ient to determine bably the and most gener: is that because writing sy tions the | Chinese ¢ of s with the vari- my chose as they complica- and simplified writing for the ancient | first; then, after a while, the sylla- found this &V bles which formed the words. This a writing system of considera- ble fluen, In it were written the science’s analysis of matter. irst. | this grew 4he Hebrew and Arabie £ o evolved. Efforts now are being made . | tudonts accepted matter wselt; hen aiphabers, Waen G sohammicaan | €ACH Disease l'\(‘)und [to eliminate the bugs through & READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADY found it to be composed of mol- | riligion hegan to spread in the sev- | Work on Six Insects | *tudy of their breeding places. FOR BEST RESULTS 1n {India originated independently; but curculio and four species of the stink | others are convineed that this alpha- | the beginning of words, within them | pug, attacked the peaches. | bet was introduced from Syria | and as terminal letters. Educators | | Pearson, Known to growers as * P g Records of | (the home of the Phoenicians) about | beiieve thit heavy illiteracy in Tur- | fled of different forms of cach letter FILES DIVORCE SUIT Reno, Nev., June 25 UP—Felicia former Countess Giscyka, suit for divorce in district cunciform w even in Egypt and s then in correspondence Babylon cneral use Letw een cut-facing,” about 500 B. C. show the Phoeni- |800 B, C. Even the runic alphabet | key is largely due to the complexity [1h¢ 1Jury to the fruit generally | oyrt yogterday from Andrew Rus- cian alphabet in use, and apparently of the Norsemen is believed to have | of the Arabic alphabet, and that|cOnsists of scarred places on the |well Pearson, war correspendent and I use for some time. The birthdate been developed from a Greek alpha- | sehool children can became familiar [skin of the peach and occasional | writer, formerly of Washington, D, of the alphabet, therefor is taken | p, arly in the Christian era. with the new alphabet in a small | puckerings. The yearly damage to | €., charging him with failyre te voughly as about 1,000 B. C. “The resolving of writing into 1he Iphabetic been estimated be- [ provide. She asks the custody of & and 66 per cent. two year old daughter, Pearson ig No control method has widely known as Drew Pearson. he Aramean alphabet was de- veloped from the Phoenician on th form was somewhat likeluige of the Arabian desert, and from | fraction of the time devoted 1o mas- | orchards has tering the old. been cules. They pushed their analysis sies (with an admixture older ideographs and sym- of the boys.) “This syllable writing appeared in a purer form in the cuneiform of Mesopotamia fry th - modern world has learned of the intimate daily lives of these people first time to a nearly true alpha- ©f 10ng ago, their business fransac- fetie b (tions, their highly developed laws, “Ihe Phoenicians are supposed fo A4 theit religious customs. Tn have bren urged to this step by the sy ptsyllabic bt writing was early de- to the end the . conserve fime fn koeping vp- ;]r;- in n‘roou?”' i l.j"(!,,,‘;: (:, ,“."l‘j tians mixed with their syllable chars R U acters all the lumber of hierogly- e o phics and ideograms. The Fgyptians vears ago, therefore, that the world (YeP 100K the final step of adopt- 0. g ing symbols for letter sounds, but probably owes tho devics (hat S SR U nd science, and of civil Zation Il of the continuing activities other varied characters. The Final Step “The ultimate step in splitting up “We fake the alphabet and all i the syllables, adopting an alphabet these words that are built from it | ©f characters to represent the com- With which o record 1he shadings | POnent sounds of speech. and build- of our ideas—so much ax a matter | 1N all written words from these of course th of thousands of y hetter method of recording it 15 difficult to realize that for thousands and prrhaps tens | Phoemicians, apparently, about 1,000 | ars man had no|B. €. R his thought than with a jymble of pic- simple characters, cords of ahout 1,400 B, € | discovered in the various countries {of the eastern Mediterranean dis- Again Grant’s Brings You a Modish, Quality Garment at a Real Economy Price Made ot terials trimmed with organdy, smartly. Cool, summery, dainty fancy print ma- and stvled very with their sheer panels and organdy collars and cuffs, they are correct for almost any time of day. 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DL, it took With it} yrpg Wi i vese e further and resolved the molecules |, (v e ol rbana, (M, Iuns 2 =tBeOile | L5 pha facing.” a peculiar deformation of | into atoms; and these, finally, into | jor 1) el et . sty . | e . 8 ¢ peaches, which has caused serious | 5. positive and negative | today over a 1 8PL G Bihepn 11assay 10 Eioviie 1 tiakt dastians ot vowel and consonant symbols, | R i R e sedit et e i be discovercd, may be considere [when they hecanne Mostems that the | of several Kinds of inseets, cniomo- | positive and negative electrons of | yurks hegan the use of the Arabic ! logists of the Ilinois Natural His. | | written language, scldom eXisting | aiphaber. 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