Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet

Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
3. Progression of letter evolution - By following the
progression of each letters evolutionary process we see
some common changes in the letters. For example, most
of the pictographs were oriented in a horizontal position,
but around 1000 BCE they shifted to a vertical orientation.
This can help to fill in missing evolutionary changes.
4. Ancient Hebrew culture - The Ancient Hebrew
language is very closely related to their lifestyle. Many
times the Hebrew culture will reveal the meaning of the
picture. For example, the pictograph is named "beyt",
meaning house. The connection between the pictograph
and name is lost without knowledge of the Ancient houses
made of tents, as the pictograph is a perfect representation
of the floor plan of the tent.
Name
Just as the pictograph of a letter evolves over time, the
names of the letter occasionally evolve or on rare
occasion replaced. The name of the pictograph is peh
and is also the Hebrew word for "mouth".
1. Pictograph - What the pictograph represents is the first
clue to what the name of the letter is. For example, the
letter is an eye. The Hebrew word for an eye is !y[
(ayin) and is the Modern name for this letter.
2. Original Hebrew language - As will be demonstrated
later, the original Hebrew language consisted of Parent
and Child Roots while many of the three-letter roots,
called adopted roots, were formed at a later time. From
this we can conclude that any letter, whose Modern name
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