llic alphabets used in most Indo-European family languages. Phoenician letters looked really different than Latin and Cyrillic. The Cyrillic alphabet is the first to emerge since Greeks have borrowed Phoenician symbols first. Most of the signs have been changed when they entered Greek. Romans too needed some kind of symbols for their language, so they too used Phoenician letters, but via Greeks. Romans changed them how they wanted and created Latin; Greeks altered them their way and created Cyrillic. Though arrived from one common source, these two alphabets are considerably different from each other. This example of how a common ancestry can be changed and result in several different progenies is a very interesting idea which is investigated by the linguists. There is a theory that today's languages are indeed descendants of distinct "parent" languages. For example many scentists are serious when they talk about pass Indo-European language that is the source of about fifty languages including English and French. (Colin 112). Linguists hypothesize that all through history there were plenty of reasons for language change. One such is a theory of tribe movement, which states that when a tribe enters a particular territory and settles there for longer time, it will influence people not originally from their tribe to begin speaking that tribe's language. The best way to illustrate this is to give a description of one of the possible ways of what happened in Europe during such a movement. Early in history, people used to live in north-central Europe. Looking for food and better place to live, they entered south Europe, France, Spain, Britain, and reached all the way to Russia, Persia, and Indian subcontinent. But on their way, for some reason, they didn't touch Finland and Estonia, and went around Hungary. This hypothesis can explain the enormous similitude between the languages of almost all of the Europe, Iran, and India. It also can give ...
