…In the past, pictographic and ideographical writing was called “text,” and phono-semantic and compound ideographic writing was called “characters,” but pictographic and ideographical writing was created first, and both originated from pictorial hieroglyphics. The Roman alphabet, as it is called the “Latin alphabet,” is a writing system created by the Latin people, but originally it is derived from the Greek alphabet, along with the Russian alphabet. The Greeks believed that they had borrowed the alphabet from the Phoenician alphabet. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention the "Latin alphabet" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…古くは象形と指事とによるものを〈文〉と呼び,形声と会意とによるものを〈字〉と呼んだことがあったが,象形と指事とによるものがまずつくられたものであって,いずれも絵画的な象形文字に由来する。 ローマ字は〈ラテン・アルファベットLatin alphabet〉と称せられるように,ラテン民族によってつくりあげられた文字であるが,起源的にはロシア文字などとともにギリシア文字に由来する。ギリシア人はその文字をフェニキアの文字から借りたと信じていた。… ※「Latin alphabet」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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