The Evolution of the Latin Alphabet

This was a lecture I gave in 2014 at the invitation of the Italian Consulate in Shanghai concerning the evolution of the Latin alphabet. It was part of a larger conference that dealt with romanization. I came across the PowerPoint file, and I decided it to make this video out of it. I hope you enjoy it, and if you are interested in seeing more things like this, please subscribe to my channel. Thank you!

[@arem6038]

Thank you so much for this well-organized and well-explained lecture! As a linguistic and history nerd myself, I find it all too important for everyone to have such great access to the foundation and development of our modern writing systems!

[@nishantshrivastav4402]

nice job and highly appreciable

[@dauthier]

Thank you. You're very kind.

[@gvnvcbs7150]

wow thank you so much for uploading this!

[@mamushi72sai]

Love it. Thanks so much.

[@dauthier]

You're very welcome! I'm happy you enjoyed it.

[@lokyiwong4968]

Thank you for your sharing :) Amazing Lecture!

[@jaket163]

Whew!
Thnx .

[@drogbi92]

Wow. This is very good

[@dauthier]

Thank you!

[@Z15TEENG]

Hathor came to be the Arabic word for OX and became THORE.

[@ercushkakulmetov7458]

Latin alphabet has Turkic origin. It's originally from central Asia.

[@dauthier]

Proof?

[@agalitev]

there is none, even the turkic alphabet originated from egyptian by being a descendant of arabic writing.

[@marcmarc8524]

Yes. Everything is turkish. The Turks have invented everything on Earth. Most of all nationalistic stupidities.

[@patrickohooliganpl]

Luwio-Anatolian (Etruscan) not Turkic. Turks left their Khaganate in Central Asia and entered Anatolian Peninsula many centuries later than Etruscans left it.

[@nukhetyavuz]

@@dauthierwww.continuitas.org/texts/alinei_etruscan.pdf