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chalcidian alphabet — noun Usage: usually capitalized C : any of the non Ionic Greek alphabets; specifically : that of the Chalcidian colonies of lower Italy and Sicily from which the Latin alphabet was developed * * * Chalcidian alphabet noun The alphabet used by… … Useful english dictionary
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
Greek alphabet — Writing system developed in Greece с 1000 BC, the direct or indirect ancestor of all modern European alphabets. Derived from the North Semitic alphabet via that of the Phoenicians, it modified an all consonant alphabet to represent vowels.… … Universalium
History of the alphabet — The history of the alphabet begins in Ancient Egypt, more than a millennium into the history of writing. The first pure alphabet emerged around 2000 BCE to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt (see Middle Bronze Age alphabets), and… … Wikipedia
Chalkidian pottery — Animal on the back of a neck amphora by the Group of the Leipzig Amphora, circa 560/540 BC. Paris: Louvre. Chalcidian pottery is an important style of black figure Greek vase painting. The style s name is derived from the occasional presence of… … Wikipedia
History of writing — Writing systems History Grapheme List of writing systems Types Featural alphabet Alphabet Abjad Abugida Syllabary Logography Shorthand … Wikipedia
Lemnian language — The Lemnian language is a language of the 6th century BC spoken on the island of Lemnos. It is mainly attested by an inscription found on a funerary stele, termed the Lemnos stele, discovered in 1885 near Kaminia. However, fragments of… … Wikipedia
writing system — Synonyms and related words: Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Avestan, Babylonian, Berber, Chalcidian, Cherokee, Coptic, Cretan, Cyrillic, Elamitic, Etruscan, Georgian, Gothic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, ITA, Iberian, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International… … Moby Thesaurus
L — ([e^]l) n. 1. L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Ph[oe]nician,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chalkis — Chạlkis [ç , neugriechisch xal kis], Hauptort der griechischen Insel Euböa, 51 600 Einwohner; orthodoxer Erzbischofssitz; archäologisches Museum (u. a. archaische Giebelskulpturen vom Apollotempel von Eretria); chemische, Maschinenbau ,… … Universal-Lexikon
