Topic > Essay on Alphabets - 532

For our excerpt we chose a quote from a man named Dejan Stojanovic. We chose it for the poetic atmosphere and because it deals with our topic, the alphabets. What we got out of it was that there is an alphabet everywhere. He is saying that alphabets are an important part of life, cultures, countries and religion. There is almost an alphabet for every culture, religion and country. This poem is fluid and sweet but contains a truth. Many countries and cultures have their own alphabet to represent them. You don't want to always share an alphabet, you want to be independent and stand for what you believe in. We have chosen to make the history of alphabets, focusing on three specific ones: the Egyptian alphabet, the ancient Latin alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet. We chose to do this because there are many alphabets currently in use in the world and they are all extremely different. There have been a total of 59 total alphabets in the world, of which 18 are currently in use, 9 are used to a limited extent, and 29 are currently unused. We thought it would be very interesting to know their origins, as r...