Hi all - introduction

I was invited to this forum on another science forum I'm 20 year old girl from a small, but beautiful European country and I study biotechnology. No, I'm not from Greece but I studied ancient Greek, Latin and bits of Hebrew ever since I was a little girl, so that's how I choose my username. That's it for now

Hi, and welcome to the forum, GnothiSeauton. A good place to get to know yourself!    (For anyone unfamiliar with the phrase this username means in Greek "Know thyself"). A good basis for not only Western philosophy but also for Eastern philosophy as well.  

A young fresh mind should certainly bring much to the forum, and I will be interested to hear more about Biotechnology for sure!

GnothiSeauton wrote:I was invited to this forum on another science forum I'm 20 year old girl from a small, but beautiful European country and I study biotechnology. No, I'm not from Greece but I studied ancient Greek, Latin and bits of Hebrew ever since I was a little girl, so that's how I choose my username. That's it for now

Gnothi,

There are few female voices on science related forums, so yours might be especially welcome. May you find some engaging discussions.

Hi.
I hope you have much to teach us about biotech.
I'm still scratching the surface on this topic.

A while ago I noticed that the Greek and Hebrew alphabets
were strikingly similar, but could not figure out
if one evolved out of the other, or if they had a common origin.

Any thoughts?

Well, no one knows particulary, but it is believed that Greek and Hebrew (as well as most of Indo-european languages) evolved from Sanskrit. It is only known that ancestor of Greek is Linear A and B. Phoenicians gave name for each letter in Greek alphabet (eg. Gama is gimel because letter reminded them of camel). Ancient Greek dialect which I learned was Dorian, the official dialect in Athens (it is also dialect used in most philosophy texts).

aah. excellent. Thank-you.
I suspected Sanskrit as the origin of all human language.