S1E18 - Written Language, Part 1

This is the first of our tiny summer linguistics series, all about written language.

 

Where did our English alphabet come from?  Wasn't there something about the Phoenicians?  Why do we have so many different kinds of spellings?  Who is responsible for that trash.

One of the resources used for this episode:

The Writing Revolution – Amalia Gnanadesikan

 

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