History Quote by James John Courtenay

“Phoenician writing is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite system, and from these developed the Palaeo-Hebrew script (c. 800 BCE) and the Aramaic script (c.…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay

“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.”

— James John Courtenay

“The Proto-Canaanite ... seems to have employed 27 different characters. The Ugaritic alphabet from around the 14th century BCE uses 30 characters ... Phoenician…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“It is certain that 'Phoenician' became the type of all subsequent script in western Asia and Europe.”

— James John Courtenay

“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the…

— M.C. Scott

“I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until two men,…

— Ibn Al-Nadim

“... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

— Thomas Carlyle

“The Coptic Achievement In vivid contrast, the Egyptian churches certainly did reach the hearts of their natives, and from early times. Even the name…

— Philip Jenkins

“It is not probable that the Hittite system of writing passed away without leaving its influence behind it ... There is reason to think…

— A. H. SAYCE