Language

! The Last of the Phoenicians

Many writing systems that we use today descended directly from the right-to-left "abjad" (no vowels) created by Phoenicians in 1050 BC. The first letter of the alphabet (alf) represents a glottal stop, as in Dene.

• alf ("ox") ʾ [ʔ] u10900
• bet ("house") b [b] u10901
• gaml ("camel") g [ɡ] u10902
• ...

It's all ελληνικά to me!

In 800 BC, the Greeks starting writing left-to-right, and each letter had upper and lower "case" . They used the alphabet to represent numbers as well and 3 extra characters were added to the phonetic symbols to complete numeral writing system.

• Α α 1 alpha [a] [aː], [a]
• Β β 2 beta [b], [v]
• Γ γ 3 gamma [ɡ], [ɣ]
• ϛ 6 digamma
• ϟ 90 koppa
• ϡ 900 sampi

I <3 Tåîchô!

• dotless I
• crazy L
• high tone, low tone, nasal
• schwa
• winmac denefont!