Authors
- Kirov Evgenij Doctor of Philology, Professor
Annotation
In this paper we consider the origin of a letter as a language token.
The solution proposed is so simple that it can explain the amazing phenomenon of similarity of letters in different geographically distanced alphabets. According to the paper, the letter is a schematic image of the position
of speech organs at the moment of speech production. Some of the letters
still remain iconic, for example, the letter “o” in the graphic systems of different languages. It is a plausible explanation for the similarity in the shape
of letters belonging to different graphic systems of the world. This similarity
is seen as inevitable as identical sounds existing in different languages can
only be represented by similar or identical tokens.
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