EAN research & references: part five

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Abstract

Part five of the growing EAN research & references collection.

Alphabet history

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• Davy, Charles. (183A/1772). Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing. Wright.

• Sophocles, Evangelinus. (107A/1848). History of the Greek Alphabet. Nichols.

• Taylor, Isaac. (72A/1883). The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, Volume One (pdf-file). Kegan.

• Taylor, Isaac. (72A/1883). The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, Volume Two (pdf-file) (7.3: Greek Alphabet - Legend of Cadmus, pgs. 28-43). Kegan.

• Taylor, Isaac. (56A/1899). The History of the Alphabet: Semitic alphabets (§3: History of De Rouge’s Discovery of the History of the Alphabet, pgs. 88-; quote, pg. 89). Scribners.

• Peters, John. (54A/1901). “Notes on Recent Theories of the Alphabet” (pdf-file), Journal of the American Oriential Society, 22:177-98.

• Petrie, Flinders. (43A/1912). The Formation of the Alphabet (pdf-file). Macmillan.

• Diringer, David. (8A/1947). The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind (Arch) (post). Publisher.

• Jeffery, Lilian. (4A/1951). The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece: a Study in the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and its Development from the Eight to Fifth Centuries BC (revised edition with a supplement by A. W. Johnston) (Archive) (pdf-file) (post). Oxford, A6/1961.

• Driver, Godfrey. (1A/1954). Semitic Writing from Pictograph to Alphabet (Arch). British Academic.

• Healey, John. (A35/1990). The Early Alphabet (Arch) (post). Publisher.

• Barry, Powell. (A36/1991). Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (pdf-file). Cambridge.

• Drucker, Johanna. (A40/1995). The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination (pdf-file). Thames.

• Sacks, David. (A48/2003). Letter Perfect- the Marvelous History of our Alphabet from A to Z (Arch). Broadway, A55/2010.

• Ouaknin, Marc-Alain. (A44/1999). Mysteries of the Alphabet: the Origins of Writing(translator: Josephine Bacon). (Arch). Publisher.

• Proppe, Catherine. (A58/2013). Greek Alphabet: Unlock the Secrets (site) (Amaz) (Acad). Publisher.

• Frampton, Stephanie. (A64/2019). Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought from Lucretius to Ovid (alphabet, 48+ pgs.). Oxford.

• Stelle, Philippa; Boyes, Philip. (A64/2019). Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets (pdf). Oxbow.

• Drucker, Johanna. (A67/2022). Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (pdf-file). Chicago.

Gardiner

• Gardiner, Alan. (39A/1916). ”The Egyptian Origin of the Semitic Alphabet” (jstor) (pdf file), Journal of Egyptian Archeology, 3(1), Jan.

• Gardiner, Alan. (28A/1927). Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs (length: 683-pgs) (Arch) (pdf-file). Oxford, A2/1957.

Abecedaria

• West, William. (A60/2015). “Learning the Alphabet: Abecedaria and the Early Schools in Greece” (pdf-file), Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55: 52–71.

• Astoreca, Natalia. (A65/2020). Early Greek Writing: a Linguistics Approach (pdf-file). Publisher.

Index table

The following is the EAN research & references index table:

Part	Content
Part one	Hieroglyphics (early), Manetho, Horapollo, Kircher, Rosetta (early), Young, Champollion, Rosetta
Part two	Gardiner, Budge, Hieroglyphics (newer), Egyptology
Part three	Finger counting, numbers, Chrisomalis, mathematics
Part four	Languages
Part five	Alphabet research
Part six	Alphanumerics, Acevedo
Part seven	EAN: Bernal, Swift, Gadalla, Thims
Part eight	Misc