What are some ways to deviate the evolution of the script as a whole? (Not one language!) Are there any characters that could have been officially recognized? Could a different script cause differences in history?
C/G, I/J and U/V (plus the letter W) came to the alphabet late (plus K and F maybe?). If there is a prior alteration to the alphabet, those might get butterflied away.
The easier route is Latin borrowings from Greek. The Romans didn't have letters to represent some sounds in the Greek language, so they wrote the closest sound in their language and added an h to the letter to represent it. That's how we got some digraphs like ph, th and ch (as in chi). Ph sound has its own letter as well, F. So we might get a th and ch letter.
Looks like my chemistry work.
Looks like my chemistry work.
Latin actually used the forerunner to the acute accent for marking long vowels (áéíóú) but that practice seems to have been lost sometime. Retaining it seems interesting for this thread.Also long vowel sounds.
C/G, I/J and U/V (plus the letter W) came to the alphabet late (plus K and F maybe?). If there is a prior alteration to the alphabet, those might get butterflied away.
The easier route is Latin borrowings from Greek. The Romans didn't have letters to represent some sounds in the Greek language, so they wrote the closest sound in their language and added an h to the letter to represent it. That's how we got some digraphs like ph, th and ch (as in chi). Ph sound has its own letter as well, F. So we might get a th and ch letter.
Latin actually used the forerunner to the acute accent for marking long vowels (áéíóú) but that practice seems to have been lost sometime. Retaining it seems interesting for this thread.
Looks like my chemistry work.
Alchemy, actually.So, do you study chemistry in medieval Europe, then?![]()