Re: CHAT: Names of Latin alphabet letters
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 23, 2001, 9:08 |
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On 22 Jan, John Cowan wrote:
>It turns out that it was the Etruscans who gave the alphabet
>letters their modern European names, breaking with the
>Greek < Phoenician names alpha < alef, beta < bet, etc.
Interesting. But I'm a bit puzzled. How do we know this?
I thought that not much was known about the Etruscan lang.
Dan Sulani
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