Most apealing alphabeth

The Futhark Runic aphabet.

I find runes have an almost mystic appeal, but i suspect this is more due to subtle conditioning from newage bollucks. They do look cool though.
I have a real softspot for cyrilic though, i'll finaly make hte effort to learn it one day.

Originally posted by perikles    dear Friend from fYROM. Your alphabet and also all the slavic alphabet was a gift from Byzantine empire.I think you remember Kirilos and Methodios. Your alphabet it ahs no difference from all the slavic ones. At least until the propaganda of Tito starts. And from then you become descedants of Macedons. Don't accuse others for propaganda when you are the meaning of the word. And i always glad when i see people of other tribes and nations want to become Greeks. If you want for making your life easier i can teach you greek free of charge

People angrily complain about something (in this case "FYROM") when they are insecure, it's just stupid. 

Anyways I think it was valid to mention Macedonian script.  I mentioned Czech "alphabet" which is just latin with a few accents, no one made long angry replies how it was really made up by germans or slovaks or whatever.

Originally posted by theMacedonian2 ...St. Naum of Ohrid...

Uhm... Who? St. Naum is named Preslavski, while Ohridski is St. Kliment/Clement. Perhaps you meant him? Indeed, the Cyrillic alphabet lies in Naum's original centre in Preslav (IIRC, he was later transferred to Ohrid too, but he remained St. Naum Preslavski, where most of his work had been done). Therefore, it's more than clear that the Cyrillic alphabet was created in Bulgaria (no matter in which of the two literary centres - Preslav or Ohrid, although Preslav is more probable). The only discussion could be whether the Glagolitic alphabet, made by St. Cyril and St. Methodius, was Byzantine, Velikomoravian, Bulgarian or just all-Slavic, as all sources say...

Originally posted by Patrinos which is obviously very simiral to the Greek alphabet.Whoever did it it was a copy of the Byzantine alphabet with some extra signs.

Originally posted by Anton More properly, whoever did it, it was copy of Greek alphabeth, which in turn was copy of Phoenician alphabeth with deletion of some not required signs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet

And the Phoenician alphabet is a copy of the original Proto-Sinaitic alphabet which was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.sourse
Greeks created their own versions and from these versions derive the Gothic,Glagolitic,Cyrillic,Coptic,Old Italic alphabet,Latin alphabet,Armenian (disputed).sourse
Don't continue it..we will find the deep origins of the alphabet in the paintings of the Neaterdals.
    
    

Edited by Patrinos - 14-Dec-2006 at 15:05

Originally posted by Patrinos And the Phoenician alphabet is a copy of the original Proto-Sinaitic alphabet which was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.sourse

I don't know about the Yakutian, but Mongolia's current alphabet is exactly the Cyrillic alphabet. I guess this is mainly due to the Russian influence or something like that...
Btw, Serbian is South-Slavic (together with Bulgarian) and not North-Slavic. Actually, there is no North-Slavic group - only West-Slavic (like Polish, Czech etc.), South-Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian) and East-Slavic (Russian), like the ancient Slavic groups - respectively Venedi, Slavini and Anti.
The two main "groups" of dialects in the 19th century (and today) are the group of the Western Bulgarian dialects (Macedonian, Shop's) and Eastern Bulgarian dialects (from which the current official literary Bulgarian is derived; IIRC, the Macedonians were quite upset when we chose the Eastern group to be official). Of course, there are some other dialects, which I personally would have trouble classifying in one of those two groups, like the Rhodopean dialect f.e.

About the closeness of the Cyrillic to the Greek alphabet, unlike the Glagolitic - St. Cyril and St. Methodius wanted to make a new Slavic alphabet and they did exactly that - a really new alphabet. But in time the Cyrillic replaced the Glagolitic, because Cyrillic was much easier to use, especially in Bulgaria, since many Bulgarians already had at least some basic knowledge on Greek. Actually, IIRC, it's written in St. Climent's passional (one of the arguments in support that he made the Cyrillic alphabet) that he improved the alphabet and made new signs, so that it can be easier for his pupils to learn to write it, because the old Glagolitic was very difficult for them. However, it's not stated if Climent just revised the more familiar and easier to use Greek alphabet and thus made the Cyrillic or he revised the old Glagolitic and made a new version of Glagolitic, which is now lost.

Btw, one question: Where are the Armenian and/or Georgian alphabet derived from? They look quite different from the Greek alphabet, but I also wouldn't say they're too close to Arabian or Hebrew too...


About the original human writing - well, I think it wouldn't be too far if we actually do look at the cave paintings as the first sings of very primitive writing. Because one of the functions of those paintings was to transfer some knowledge through time, which is also one of the functions of the writing, we know as of today. Later these paintings evolved into more abstract figures, which then, in time, evolved into hieroglyphs and letters.
Btw, anyone heard of the Karanovo script? I remember that one Bulgarian-American had managed to "decipher" it some time ago, in some Institute of Transcedental Knowledge or something like that!

Originally posted by akritas I didnt know that the Altaic family (Mongolian,Yakutian) is connect with the South Slavic (IE) family and the modern languages (Bulgarian,Slavmacedonian) or North Slavic(Serbian). Do you have any source?