Legibility And Reader-Friendly Font
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hieroglyphs (“sacred signs” – Greek). Whenever people need an additional letter, they would ask: “Where could we borrow one?” They could not even think of designing a new glyph (a sacrilege!), so they preferred to mutilate an existing one instead. Later this attitude significantly contributed to development of diacritics.
The next revolution in writing systems took place more than a thousand years later, when the first proper alphabet was specially created from scratch for any particular language – not inherited or borrowed from somewhere. For example, in 9th century A.D. St.Cyril and St.Methodius created a brand-new Glagolitic alphabet for the Slavic languages. There was one-to-one correspondence between phonemes and graphemes, so Glagolitic alphabet perfectly fitted the Slavic languages. It’s descendant Cyrillic adapted to changes in spoken language and
