Iyini i-alfabhethi, incazelo yalo nomlando

Kusukela ezikhathini zasendulo, abantu baye bafuna ukukhulumisana ukuze baphile. Ngakho waqala ukwakha izizwe, amaqembu ezizwe, bese kuthi abantu. Ngamashumi ayishumi nanhlanu, okhokho bethu bakhula ngokwengeziwe futhi ngesikhathi esisodwa banquma ukusungula into engasiza ukulungisa imicabango yabo ematshe nasemapyriyri. Kuphathelene nama-alphabet. Ivele nini kuqala? Yakhiwe kanjani futhi yakhiwa? Futhi yiziphi izinhlamvu? Sizoyiqonda okwamanje.

Ukufana kokuqala kwezinhlamvu zamagama ngokwezwi elivamile laleli gama kwakungama- hieroglyphs aseGibhithe, aqoshwe ezindongeni zangaphakathi zamathuna ezimele abamele umphakathi, kanye nasemathempelini. Kodwa lezi zimpawu zazingaphezulu kwezithombe kunezinhlamvu, ngoba eziningi zazo zibonisa izinto ezithile. Isisekelo senkulumo ebhaliwe yasendulo kwakuyizinhlamvu zamaFenike ezakhela cishe eminyakeni engaba ngu-4000 edlule. Ama-alfabhethi aseFenike abe isisekelo sezilimi zabanye abantu abaningi ababephila ngalolu mpucuko: amaGreki, amaRoma nabanye.

Kungani amagama alfabhethi abaluleke kangaka? Lokhu kusungulwe kwenzeke ukuthi kusetshenziswe imisindo umuntu akwazi ukuyishicilela, futhi ayichaze ngesimo sezimpawu ezithile, ezizwakalisa lokhu. Ake sifingqa ukuthi yiliphi i-alphabet. Ama-alfabhethi iyisethi yamatshwayo ahlelwe ngendlela ethile futhi eveza imisindo evezwe ngumuntu ephepheni.

Ezweni lanamuhla, isizwe ngasinye sinamahlamvu alo, kodwa ezinye izincwadi zingase zihambisane. Lo mkhuba uvame ukubhekwa ikakhulukazi emazweni angomakhelwane noma emazweni anezilimi ezisemthethweni ezivela okhokho oyedwa. Ngakho-ke, isibonelo, ama-alphabet emazweni amaningi aseYurophu akhiwa kusukela olimini lwesiLatini nezandiso ezihlobene, ngakho-ke bangathola ukufana okuningi kokubili nokubhala amagama.

Kukhona ukujwayela okuthakazelisayo: kunoma yiluphi ulimi, ama-consonants angamakhulu amaningana kunama-vowels. Isibonelo saleqiniso yizinhlamvu zesiNgisi. Kunamakhophi angu-26 kuwo, okungu-6 kuphela okungenziwa ukuhlabelela, okungukuthi, ukudweba imisindo yezwi.

Abantu abaningi bayazibuza ukuthi kungani abantu abaningi baseMpumalanga, Eningizimu-mpumalanga nase-Asia Ephakathi, bekwazi ukuthi i-alfabhethi yenzani, abazenzele bona noma i-analogue ngokususelwa kuma-alfabethi akhona? Impendulo ilula - kusukela ezikhathini zasendulo isimiso sabo sokubhala sakhiwa kuma-hieroglyphs, ngalinye lalisho igama elithile noma inkulumo ethile. Kodwa lezi zimpawu zihluke kakhulu kulabo asetshenziswa abaseGibhithe eminyakeni eyizinkulungwane ezimbalwa ezedlule. Izibonakaliso zazo zaziyizithombe eziningi, ezinomqondo oqondile. I-Hieroglyphs yezizwe zanamuhla ziyizingoma zemigqa yobukhulu nobude obuhlukile, kodwa ayiyona imidwebo.

Ngakho, umlando wezinhlamvu nezimpawu unamakhulu eminyaka ubudala. Lokhu kubonisa zonke izinguquko ezandulela ukuthuthukiswa kokubhala, futhi zikhuluma ngokuvela kwezilimi zasendulo, okuvela kuzo izinhlamvu zamanje. Ngakho-ke, ukwazi ukuthi yiliphi i-alfabhethi, ungathola umlando we-alfabhethi yakho kanye nabantu bakho bonke.