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History of Writing - The Alphabet - Extra History (Patreon)

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2017-07-29 04:41:39
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Where did the alphabet come from? How did it develop, and why?

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History of Writing - The Alphabet - Extra History

Where did the alphabet come from? How did it develop, and why? The writing systems first developed in Sumer provided a basis for the written word, but their system of characters also inspired a shift to single phoneme systems where each letter represents a distinct sound. Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC _________ Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://goo.gl/HkzwQh Contribute community subtitles to Extra Credits: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg&tab=2 ___________ Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm

Comments

Bumble

Neat stuff

Brian Rose

Great one off episode. Does this mean next week is Lies?

Martin Verran

[Singing badly] A, B, C, D, E, F, G...

Astrid Stormborn

Nice video. 1 question though- At 5:10, are the keyboard buttons supposed to be completely buggered like that?

Jorlem

Spotted an error: at 1:29, the episode is describing how cuneiform spread outward from Sumeria to be used by the rest of the ancient Mediterranean countries, but the image shown is of a map with arrows emanating outward from Egypt. Just a bit afterward, the voiceover describes how symbols for a specific sound originated in Egypt, which might be where this error came from.

ExtraCredits
>>6395654

Whoops! Our bad. For such a short episode this one was chock full of info. We did our best to check it, but alas!

ExtraCredits
>>6395197

Introducing you to new aspects of the written word even in our choice of keyboard layouts!

ExtraCredits
>>6393812

It's happened before! Bronze Age Collapse was a four-part series, and we allot seven weeks of artist and production time to each series. Sometimes it's 6 episodes + Lies, sometimes 5 episodes + 1 one-off + Lies, you get the idea. If the main series is less than six episodes long, then the gaps get filled with one-offs. Articles of Confederation was also a recent four-parter that had two one offs (both about Kamehameha) to fill the gap.

Tempestfury

You know, I really hope you do more single episodes like this and the Sanitation movement. One Shots that aren't big enough to be their own series, but are very important to history off a whole, and subjects already covered. That, and I hope you eventually cover the history of writing completely!

JT

I am really enjoying these episodes on early and ancient civilizations. Its cool to see how things from thousands of years ago still impact us today!

Justme

Greatly educational and interesting as always! Question though, 5:39 - what's a "phenome"? ;)

Anonymous

5:40... Papyrus leads to Phenomes?

Brian Rose
>>6393812

No, I mean doing two consecutive one-off episodes on different topics; normally, when you guys have two consecutive open spots like this, you give both of them to a single one-off topic, but it seems like you're going to be doing something different next week. Can't wait to see what.

Blaise Fort

WHOOO!! We got Phoenicians!!

Daniel R.

Late due to life, but YAY!

Boonce

Modern Hebrew is still lacks vowels, it was one of the stranger things to wrap my head around as a native English speaker.

Joo-Hwan Jun

PERFECT! I now found a way to pull an "Adam Conover" when a Greek and a Jew argue about which (Greek or Hebrew) came first. Meanwhile in the FAR East, something similar happened. Everyone started to adopt the Chinese characters and eventually ditched the characters in order to fit their own language. Two examples I can think of Katakana and Hangul. The former takes pieces of the Chinese characters and replaces them with sound. Hangul, on the other hand, abandons the characters entirely and just uses their own alphabet. I am unfamiliar with the India, Thailand and the South Asia area; therefore someone please give me a quick summary of the languages of that area please.

Martin Ockovsky
>>6397114

I too, am glad! You are the bestest. You are the best arooound, tududu tududu tu tu du.

ExtraCredits
>>6423459

I'm hoping we can keep doing these and talk about the history of many languages, including the far east. Hangul in particular is one I'd love to explore in an episode!

Tempestfury

... Huh, was going to ask how exactly writing developed out in the far east such as China and India, but Joo-Hwan Jun seems to cover Chneese quite well...

Martin Ockovsky
>>6397114

Fight ‘til the end, cause your life will depend, on the strength that you have inside you!

Joo-Hwan Jun
>>6423459

Thanks! Two things had to happen before the invention of Hangul begun. A story of selflessness of King Sejong's two older brothers and his discovery of his kingdom's low literacy rate. The former is unique because it is contrary to the usual power feud of the majority of royal families. The two older brothers saw that their youngest was the brightest and best fit to lead the country. To get around the rule of succession, both came up with a plan. The oldest developed the persona of an irresponsible and debauch prince, the king had no choice but to pull him out for the run for the throne. Not wanting another disgrace, the king made sure the second oldest was an upright candidate. However, this was to the advantage of the second prince because he told his father he will become a Buddhist monk. Being Buddhist himself, the king cannot object to the second prince's decision and so Sejong became the Crown Prince.

Bill Lemmond

This is great, but how did I miss your Bronze Age Collapse series? I need to find that. Just not tonight - too tired, already, for learning. Just want fun, for now. :)