Alphabet grec -- Histoire

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The early Greek alphabets: origin, diffusion, uses

by Parker, Robert, Steele, Philippa M.

fromOxford studies in ancient documents

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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a …