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Monday, 1 February 2016

Introduction of Dd

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After C comes D, which is an old letter to be found in ancient Egypt, Greece, Hebrew and in all European languages, although not all written the same way. The alphabet in Asia and Africa is quite different from ours.

 

Egyptian hieroglyph
door		 Phoenician
daleth		 Greek
Delta		 Etruscan
D		 Roman
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PhoenicianD-01.png Delta uc lc.svg EtruscanD-01.svg Roman D
The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek and Latin, the letter represented /d/; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still retained (see letter B). The equivalent Greek letter is Delta, Δ.
Love of Detective Fiction


 

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11 comments:

  1. Leslie:1 February 2016 at 14:32

    oooooh....I do love a good detective story! Interesting how alphabets got started.

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  2. Ira1 February 2016 at 22:03

    Quite Interesting! Nice to know about its origin!

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  3. MelodyK2 February 2016 at 04:36

    I think there is a lot more to learn about letters and writing in general.

    Detectives are my favorite to... especialy the English and Scandinavian ones... never see to much of them.

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  4. Reader Wil2 February 2016 at 05:43

    You are right:We never have too many of them! Especially the British ones.

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  5. Kate2 February 2016 at 06:49

    I always enjoy a bit of history with the post.

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  6. ellen b.2 February 2016 at 08:09

    Interesting intro and I always love a good detective story!

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  7. Gattina2 February 2016 at 23:52

    I recognize myself in the first cartoon !

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  8. Melbourne Australia Photos3 February 2016 at 05:13

    I was going to talk about DR WHO and the DALEKS, or DARTH VADER and DEATH STARS, DEUTERIUM and DARK MATTER, but then I said what the heck, and planted my feet firmly on terra firma and stayed in my neighbourhood, and the DAREBIN CREEK!

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  9. Melbourne Australia Photos3 February 2016 at 05:56

    And "D" stands for DELHI in India.

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  10. My Desktop Daily3 February 2016 at 06:17

    Nice intro. My "D" is for DAISIES!

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  11. Anonymous3 February 2016 at 12:21

    delta - one of the Greek letters easiest to remember (I took Greek for 2 semesters, because I didn't want to take German or French as a language requirement. It was fun, because I was to the point I could read from my New Testament Greek bible - not anymore though - sigh)

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