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Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 2: Ancient Lowercase, or Minuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 2 of this series teaches you to write the minuscule (lowercase) letter variants. This Greek script became more and more common in later ancient times and the middle ages. Printed Ancient...
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 1: Ancient Uppercase, or Majuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 1 of this series teaches you to write the majuscule (uppercase) variants, the oldest forms of the Greek letters. This Greek script was used on ancient monuments and in older texts. Visit my...
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 3: Uncials)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 3 of this series teaches you to write the Uncial variants of uppercase Greek letters. Scribes began to use these letter forms early in the Christian era, and the script is often associated...
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 4: Byzantine Minuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 4 of this series teaches you to write in the Byzantine minuscule hand. This version of lowercase Greek handwriting became increasingly prominent in the Middle Ages. Stylized forms emerged...
Easy Languages
How to Pronounce Well Known Greek Words in Greek | Easy Greek 97
How to Pronounce Well Known Greek Words in Greek | Easy Greek 97
Easy Greek is a project to help you learn Greek in an authentic and fun way. We interview people in the streets of Athens and other places in Greece. All our...
Easy Greek is a project to help you learn Greek in an authentic and fun way. We interview people in the streets of Athens and other places in Greece. All our...
NativLang
Ancient Greek proverbs, written & spoken - 3 quotes from Delphi (with audio)
μηδὲν ἄγαν. Nothing in excess. (Or, perhaps, "Moderation in all things.") γνῶθι σεαυτόν. Know yourself. ("Know thyself.") ἐγγύα πάρα δ' ἄτη. A pledge is near to ruin. ("Make a pledge, and mischief is nigh.") These three Greek sayings...
Curated Video
History of the Alphabet for Kids
Have you ever wondered where the letters we use every day come from? In this video, we’ll take a journey through time to explore the fascinating history of the alphabet! From ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to the Phoenician alphabet, and...
Curated Video
Writing Systems of the World | Abjads, Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries & Logosyllabaries
Writing Systems of the World | Abjads, Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries & Logosyllabaries
Curated Video
The Evolution of Secret Communication: From Ancient Alphabets to Caesar's Cipher
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) highlights the importance of having an alphabet for encoding written messages.
NativLang
Byzantine Greek minuscule script - the alphabet & varied letter forms
Learn to write the cursive minuscule hand used for Medieval Greek. Letters of the alphabet appear in various forms. Earliest forms (generally 800-1200) appear on the left, later forms (roughly 1600-1800) on the right. See my "Learn to...
Religion for Breakfast
Coptic: The Final Ancient Egyptian Language
00:00 Intro<br/>
00:52 Phases of the Egypti<br/>an Language
2<br/>:19 Dialects of Coptic<<br/>br/>4:36 Origins of<br/> Coptic Script
7:55 Genres of Coptic Lit
12:22 Later History
00:52 Phases of the Egypti<br/>an Language
2<br/>:19 Dialects of Coptic<<br/>br/>4:36 Origins of<br/> Coptic Script
7:55 Genres of Coptic Lit
12:22 Later History
National Geographic
Ancient Greece 101 | National Geographic
From artistry to politics, ancient Greece left a considerable impression on world history. Learn why Greek and Roman gods share so many similarities, how the alphabet got its name, and how the legacy of ancient Greece has evolved over...
NativLang
Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
My animation takes you through the birth and evolution of writing. Watch the story of the world's scripts unfold, from the early cave days to modern writing systems. But only if you choose to take Thoth's Pill... This animated...
60 Second Histories
The Rosetta Stone
This short history video explains what the Rosetta Stone is; its discovery and why it was important in helping scholars discover the meaning of the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
NativLang
IPA for Language Learning - allophones, utterances & prosody (4 of 4)
Learn to use the International Phonetic Alphabet in a way that helps you accurately pronounce other languages. In this fourth & final lesson I introduce concepts that make sense of longer streams of speech (utterances). Phonemes are...
Curated Video
What are Hieroglyphics?
This live-action video program is about the word Hieroglyphics. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Hieroglyphics through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
CuriosaMente
¿Quién inventó el ABECEDARIO?- CuriosaMente 211
¿Cuál es el origen de las letras que usamos todos los días? ¿Hau diferentes tipos de alfabetos?
The history of writing has evolved over time. It began with symbols, numbers, and pictograms in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt....
The history of writing has evolved over time. It began with symbols, numbers, and pictograms in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt....
NativLang
CAPS Unlock - the history behind uppercase & lowercase letters
The ancient alphabet was a single scratchy list of letters. So where did BIG UPPERCASE and little lowercase forms of our alphabet come from? Take a look at the history of our strange writing system and wonder... Who came first? Was it...
NativLang
Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)
Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic evolved a unique way to write vowels... with consonants! See how in this episode of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing. You're back in the ancient Middle East, where seemingly everyone's...