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Published: 2006-07-27 20:29:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 8348; Favourites: 92; Downloads: 156
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Letters are a form of art imho. They are symbols with a meaning, be it as an individuel letter or a combination of letters.The birthplace of the modern alphabet is Syria where at Ugarit (near the current village of Ras Shamra) the oldest cuneiform tablet was discovered.
The small poster is a design of my old friend Hassan and can be bought in a slightly different form at the National Museum in Damascus.
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I made something very much like this when I was thirteen, except I didn't have Palmyrean, Nabatean, or Mandean in it (and I am a fan of Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs at least as much as the good old semitic abjads) though both Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs were invented around 3200 BC, and hieroglyphs in 600 BC weren't much changed from their original forms).
Still, nice work and a good way to show the history of writing to the world.
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Thanks but I only took the picture ... the original work is by a friend. And yes I guess Arabic (certainly it's writing) is very close to Phoenician and Aramaic.
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Arabic must be the closest language to the phenician...Aramaic too ABJAD proofs it, right !?
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Weeeellll... Phoenician, Aramaic, Arabian, Hebrew, and Sabean are semitic languages with Abjad-style writing systems, but more than one semitic abjad-style script was borrowed by non-semitic cultures nearby, such as the Greeks and Etruscans borrowing the Phoenician abjad, and Persians doing the same with the Aramaic script.
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Glad you like it & thankies for the fav
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This is very interesting! Sorry I had to remove and re-add because I forgot to sort into the Linguistics category when I first added it as a favorite. =^.^=
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Thank you Smaragd01! I really appreciate this. I could really use something like this
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I am glad to hear you could use it! And thanks for the 
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Thanks for the
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Did you really make this? Quite some languages to go though there
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Hi, you were faster then me
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Well, then Hassan did a good job with it
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Yup, he is an tradional Arabic calligrapher ... but he's old now (78) and doesn't much calligraphy anymore due to his trembling hand. This was a design of him some years ago.
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