*GB* ha scritto:
> vediamo che l'alfabeto latino non è altro che l'alfabeto
> greco dell'Eubea (con in più la R ateniese/corinzia).
Adesso capisco che quegli "alcuni" erano troppo etruscofili:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_latino#Cenni_storici
L'alfabeto latino nasce nell'VIII secolo a.C. da quello greco
occidentale (probabilmente dalla colonia magnogreca di Cuma),
per derivazione diretta, o secondo alcuni, tramite quello etrusco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet#Origins
It is generally believed that the Romans adopted the Cumae alphabet,
a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century BC from Cumae,
a Greek colony in Southern Italy. (Gaius Julius Hyginus in Fab. 277
mentions the legend that it was Carmenta, the Cimmerian Sibyl, who
altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin
alphabet, which her son Evander introduced into Latium, supposedly
60 years before the Trojan War, but there is no historically sound
basis to this tale.) The Ancient Greek alphabet was in turn based
upon the Phoenician abjad. From the Cumae alphabet, the Etruscan
alphabet was derived and the Romans eventually adopted 21 of the
original 27 Etruscan letters:
Ritengo molto significativo quanto segue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#Euboean
The Euboean alphabet was used in the cities of Eretria and Chalkis
and in related colonies in southern Italy, notably in Cumae and in
Pithekoussai. It was through this variant that the Greek alphabet was
transmitted to Italy, where it gave rise to the Old Italic alphabets,
including Etruscan and ultimately the Latin alphabet. Some of the
distinctive features of the Latin as compared to the standard Greek
script are already present in the Euboean model.[34]
The Euboean alphabet belonged to the "western" ("red") type. It had
Χ = /ks/ and Ψ = /kʰ/. Like most early variants it also lacked Ω, and
used Η for the consonant /h/ rather than for the vowel /ɛː/. It also
kept the archaic letters digamma (Ϝ) = /w/ and qoppa (Ϙ) = /k/.
San (Ϻ) = /s/ was not normally used in writing, but apparently still
transmitted as part of the alphabet, because it occurs in abecedaria
found in Italy and was later adopted by Etruscan.[34]
Like Athens, Euboea had a form of "Λ" that resembled a Latin L and
a form of "Σ" that resembled a Latin S. Other elements foreshadowing
the Latin forms include "Γ" shaped like a pointed "C" (Greek Gamma
pointed.svg), "Δ" shaped like a pointed "D" (Greek Delta 04.svg),
and "Ρ" shaped like "R" (Greek Rho 03.svg).[34]
The classicist Barry B. Powell has proposed that Euboea may have been
where the Greek alphabet was first employed, c. 775-750 BC, and that
it may have been invented specifically for the purpose of recording
epic poetry.[35]
Nella tabella a fondo pagina vediamo che la forma R c'era già in Eubea
(e in un sacco di altri posti):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#Summary_table
Quindi, per Ercole, l'alfabeto primigenio era quello eubeo (secondo
Powell), e quello latino ne è il più nobile e inalterato discendente!
Ecco perché in Italia non siamo ancora scesi così in basso come i greci.
Bye,
*GB*