To: SunkenCiv
“The Phoenician alphabet — which was composed of only consonants and no vowels...”
Now how would that sound?
5 posted on
05/17/2025 10:20:39 PM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
6 posted on
05/17/2025 10:26:35 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It was to save time when writing things, but the vowels were still understood to be there.
7 posted on
05/17/2025 10:27:24 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
10 posted on
05/17/2025 10:50:06 PM PDT by
bunkerhill7
(Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I’ve heard of other written languages in which the vowels were assumed. Sort of like how most words written in English are not phonetically spelled, and you must assume the correct pronunciation.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Same as the Semitic and Egyptian languages. Vowels were implied.
13 posted on
05/17/2025 11:45:50 PM PDT by
dinodino
( Cut it down anyway. )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Vowel existed in the sense that people spoke with them. The diacritics used for vowel did not. Some letters like Ayin, Vav, and Aliph could be a vowel or consonant depending on position and case of the word. Modern Hebrew is descended from ths alphabet and vowels are rarely used outside of school.
17 posted on
05/18/2025 2:07:32 AM PDT by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayoManets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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