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2023-01-13 00:40 dustin  
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one day in 2023, ^ visited greece and their alphabet caught his attention. it looked so similar to his well-known latin one but there were also some quite interesting differences!  
  
having digged through so many caves named from a to p and intermissions from q to t, ^ decided that he wanted to find out more about the origins of the letters, and soon he began to built an own cave for each letter showing its origin. that was a lot of fun! :d  
  
these are the most important predecessors of the latin alphabet, which i'm going to refer to in the whole cave series "abc history":  
  
| it starts around 2000 b.c. with egyptian hieroglyphs. they used quite a lot of them because they had seperate glyphs for every syliable or even word. later they started to develop the idea to use one glyph for a single sound, and created a set of only 23 glyphs, one for each consonant they used in their speech. this was taken over to the proto-sinaltic script, still developped in old egypt.  
  
| the next step was done by the phoenicians, who strongly simplified and geometrized the glyphs. also, their alphabet had 22 letters in a definite order which was already very comparable to the modern latin alphabet. the origins/ reasons for that precise order of the letters are unknown.  
  
| the ancient greeks took over the alphabet from the phoenicians. however, the greeks used a lot more vowels in their speech so they decided they also needed letters for vowels. (the phoenicians still used only letters for consonants). there were some phoenician letters which represented sounds that the greek didn't need, so the greek simply re-defined those letters to represent vowels.  
  
| the (ancient) greek alphabet finally found its way via the etruscians (old italic) to the romans (latins). so it's fair fair to say that the greek alphabet (shown in this cave) is a direct predecessor of the latin script, explaining the huge similarities. however, there are also significant differences to explore!  
  
a few weeks ago, i randomly found out where the letter "a" comes from and what it symbolizes, and that fascinated me so much that i wanted to find out about the other letters as well. as i've always associated the alphabet with bd, the idea for this series was quickly born! :d  
  
the caves will be classic-style (this one is a good example) while showing the origins of each letter!  
  
if you don't already know about the abc origins, then i hope i can make you curious with the series! :d

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2023-01-13 12:18 Arno  
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sounds very promising; i'm curious! :-D  
  
question for  darkstoorm : may we see your run of 'funny flies 31 siamese town'? :-)

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2023-01-13 12:32 DarkStoorM  
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 Arno , ops, all demos are now visible :D

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2023-01-13 14:33 dustin  
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very good  Arno ! :d