For our excerpt, we have chosen a quote from a man named Dejan Stojanovic. We chose it because of its poetic atmosphere and the fact that it deals with our subject, alphabets. What we learned from this is that there is an alphabet everywhere. He says that alphabets play an important role in life, cultures, countries and religion. There is almost an alphabet for every culture, religion and country. This poem is fluid and gentle but it has a truth. Many countries and cultures have their own alphabet to represent them. You don't always want to share an alphabet, you want to be independent and represent what you believe in. We have chosen to do the history of alphabets, focusing on three of them in particular, namely the Egyptian alphabet, the ancient Latin alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet. We chose to do this because there are many alphabets in use around the world today, all extremely different. There are a total of 59 alphabets in the world, of which 18 are currently in use, 9 are used to a limited extent, and 29 are currently unused. We thought it would be very interesting to know their origins, how they r...