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Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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This book offers a lighthearted and fascinating voyage back to the origins of our alphabet. -- African Sun Times 7/5-11/99
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- PublisherAbbeville Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0789205211
- ISBN 13 9780789205216
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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