Comments by "Faramund" (@faramund9865) on "Evolution of the Alphabet | Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script" video.

  1. Still one of the best videos about any topic out there. Gets all the information you want across clearly in a heartbeat.
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  2. I know runic is not as well studied, but you can definitely see some links. I'm guessing the 'g' sound in runic, which was represented by X has a common origin or is taken from Greek X. There are also some more obvious ones like Birch-ᛒ and Oþal-ᛟ looking like Omega.
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  3.  @ashbridgeindustries Nope. Came about the same way as it did in Dutch. You is actually the first person plural... As it still is. But it was polite to address a single person in this plural form. However while Dutch developed jullie (je lui, you lot) for the plural, English kept it to function for both. And also while Dutch developed a new polite form 'u', English I'm pretty sure, did not. So in reality we Dutch and you English are constantly being very polite to eachother without realizing it.
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