Problematika vzniku řecké alfabéty I: povaha vynálezu a datace

• Authors: Horacek Filip

Title variants

EN

PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH CREATION OF THE GREEK ALPHABET I.: NATURE OF THE INVENTION AND ITS DATE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Reviewing the otherwise well-known issue of adaptation of Northwest Semitic abecedarium to the Greek again, the present article compares the two phonetical systems exploiting Semitistic as well as Graecistic perspective, relatively in detail. As background, a systematic overview of phonetic type of writing is given with emphasis on representation of vocals in preceding Near-Eastern writing systems (ranging from acrophonic use of Egyptian hieroglyphs through proto-Canaanite consonantal alphabet and, mainly, Aramaic device of vowel-letters down to the primitive Greek alphabet with independently represented vocalic phonemes). The Greek alphabet is described not as an innovative system, the value of which should lie in the ability to roughly represent all the phonemes, but as an innovative and crude one at the same time: the oldest alphabet failed to represent certain Greek phonemes, while introducing creative changes into the received abecedarium (vowels).

Keywords

EN

GREEK ALPHABET; GREEK WRITING SYSTEM; INVENTION OF THE ALPHABET

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY
• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 133
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 239-293
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Horacek Filip

• Filip Horacek, Fakulta humanitnich studii Univerzity Karlovy, U Krize 8, 158 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA09521