"A Journey Through the Letters"

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Authors: Bilal El Issaoui
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Abstract

This book explores the shared heritage of human languages through a systematic examination of ancient letter forms, tracing the pictographic origins of individual letters across five alphabetic traditions: Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Latin. Beginning with the earliest pictograms — the house, the camel, the palm, the breath, the eye, and the head — the work demonstrates that the letters we use today are not arbitrary signs but silent witnesses of a shared human origin. The work argues that language differences are surface variations on a single deep structure, and that tracing letters back to their pictographic source reveals the fundamental unity of human communication across cultures and centuries. It is written for a general audience with an interest in the history of language, comparative linguistics, and the philosophical dimensions of human expression.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Linguistics and language evolution Historical Linguistics and Language Studies Linguistics and Language Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
25 February 2026
Language
EN