The amazing discovery of the alphabetic letter on the wings of butterfly of various spices from different countries is indeed a very notable achievement on the part of the Scientists and Amateurs who had dedicated their time and had put in lot of effort by traveling to various countries in carrying out their research and investigations.
A collaborative effort was involved in their investigation and research carried out by those professionals based on the fact that the number of butterfly discovered by one scientist with some limited number of alphabets were supplemented by the other Scientist in another country that made up the full alphabetic letters A-Z and 0-9 numerals.
However, the discovery of the alphabet on the wings of the butterfly had triggered out another interesting investigation to be carried out in order to find out how the alphabet was introduce to the world.
The ability to write and speak is derived from the five vowels sound and consonants of the alphabet. Historically, the alphabets were not the first sign used in writing. The first sign was in a drawing form- showing the action of persons, animals and other things such action like walking, sleeping, talking. Laughing and so on. According to History of Writing:
The transfer of more complex information, ideas and concepts from one individual to another, or to a group, was the single most advantageous evolutionary adaptation for species preservation. As long ago as 25,000-30,000 years BP, humans were painting pictures on cave walls. Whether these pictures were telling a "story" or represented some type of "spirit house" or ritual exercise is not known.
The advent of a writing system, however, seems to coincide with the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to more permanent agrarian encampments when it became necessary to count ones property, whether it be parcels of land, animals or measures of grain or to transfer that property to another individual or another settlement. We see the first evidence for this with incised "counting tokens" about 9,000 years ago in the neolithic fertile crescent….
Latter it was developed into another kind of sign writing in order to enhance effective communication. Typical sign writing nations are the Asians and the Arabs. Hebrew is a mixture of both Aramaic and Egyptian writing.
Now the question is “Who introduced the alphabet?”. The Alphabetic writing is quite synonymous with the European nations having the world most popular languages such as English, French, Spanish, Dutch and other European languages.
Based on this background, it is assumed that Europeans introduced the alphabet while the Arab nations and Asians introduced the first sign writings but let get the facts from the Historian R. A Guisepi
The earliest writing can be traced to Sumer, in Mesopotamia. This system did not use an alphabet, instead it used pictographs which are symbols representing familiar objects. This type of writing was called cuneiform, or wedge-shaped writing. Egyptians used hieroglyphics, also a pictograph system.
The use of an alphabet probably originated among the Phoenicians sometime between 1700 and 1500 BC. This Semitic writing had only consonants; the ancient Greeks later came up with the idea of vowels. The Chinese writing system, also very ancient, maintained its pictograph character instead of developing an alphabet.
The history and prehistory of writing are as long as the history of civilization itself. Indeed the development of communication by writing was a basic step in the advance of civilization.
Based on this report it is now clear that the Phoenicians were the first to introduce the alphabet not the Europeans. Now we may ask “Who were the Phoenicians?” R. A Guisepi wrote:
These Phoenicians (the Canaanites, or Sidonians, of the Bible) were Semitic people. Their country was a narrow strip of the Syrian coast, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) long and 20 miles (32 kilometers) wide. The area now comprises Lebanon and parts of Syria and Israel. Their territory was so small that the Phoenicians were forced to turn to the sea for a living. They became the most skillful shipbuilders and navigators of their time. They worked the silver mines of Spain, passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, and founded the city of Cadiz on the southern coast of Spain. They sailed to the British Isles for tin and may have ventured around southern Africa. They founded many colonies, the greatest being Carthage.
Based on this report it is now clear that they were the first people on earth that introduced the Alphabet to the British through trading activities and from there the alphabet becomes a well known sign used in writing throughout Europe who were the major trading partners of the Phoenicians being the famous ship builders and best navigators in the ancient world.
Now with the discovery of the alphabet from the wings of the butterfly, does it means that the Phoenicians got this alphabetic letters from the wings of the butterfly before our time? It could be assumed that they got the knowledge of the use of alphabet from the gods (angels) of the land as their source of inspiration and were the best ship builders and navigators in the ancient world.
References
History of Writing by R. A. Guisepi
<http://history-world.org/writing.htm>
The International History Project, 1999
<http://www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm>
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