In the 9th century BC, the Greeks adapted the Phoenician script for use in their own language.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

The Latin script owes its existence to the Etruscan alphabet, which was adapted for Latin in the form of the Old Italic alphabet.

Director Ōmori then adapted it into the film's script.

The Greek script, adapted from a Phoenician syllabary around 800 BC, made possible the notation of the complex rhythms and vowel clusters that make up hexameter verse.

By the 1st century BC, the use of hieroglyphs gave way to a Meroitic script that adapted the Egyptian writing system to an indigenous, Nubian-related language spoken by the region's people.

He used a similar device in The Nightmare Fair, a script which was never produced for television but has been adapted twice.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

Walter Bernstein, a blacklisted scriptwriter, was commissioned by Morheim to produce the first draft " faithfully " adapted from the original script written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; when Mirisch and Brynner took over the production, they brought on Walter Newman, whose version " is largely what's on screen.

Also in that period, cuneiform writing became a general purpose writing system for logograms, syllables, and numbers, and this script was adapted to another Mesopotamian language, the East Semitic Akkadian ( Assyrian and Babylonian ) in around 2600 BC, and from there to others such as Elamite, Hattian, Hurrian and Hittite.

The Elamite Cuneiform script was used from about 2500 to 331 BC, and was adapted from the Akkadian Cuneiform.

Although this film is not in continuity with the later television series, in 1999, author Christopher Golden adapted Joss Whedon's original script into a comic book entitled " The Origin ", which Whedon later confirmed to be " pretty much " canonical.

Christopher Golden adapted the film into a comic entitled " The Origin " ( 1999 ) which more closely resembles Joss Whedon's original script.

The script, adapted from Albee's play by Hollywood veteran Ernest Lehman, broke new ground for its raw language and harsh depiction of marriage.

The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six or seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have.

The transition from the older Egyptian scripts to the newly adapted Graeco-Coptic script was in part due to the decline of the traditional role played by the priestly class of ancient Egyptian religion, who unlike most ordinary Egyptians, were literate in the temple scriptoria.

Fett's armor was originally designed for " super troopers ", and was adapted for Fett as the script developed.

The Gujarātī script was adapted from the Devanāgarī script to write the Gujarātī language.

The cuneiform script is adapted to Akkadian writing from the mid 3rd millennium.

The script was adapted by Jack Cunningham from a story by Fairbanks, who used his middle names " Elton Thomas " as a pseudonym.

Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, who adapted the comic Garfield into a similar-style live-action / CG hybrid family film, will pen the script for the coming-of-age story which is set in the present day.

Both this episode and ". 22 Rifle for Christmas " were adapted for television, with very few script changes, when Dragnet moved to that medium.

Even for those who have been observing the political scene a long time, no script from the past is worth very much in gazing into the state's immediate political future.

The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge ' ez alphabet ( an abugida ) is descended.

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.

In the narrower sense, some scholars distinguish " true " alphabets from two other types of segmental script, abjads and abugidas.

Kurosawa's responsibilities increased, and he worked at tasks ranging from stage construction and film development to location scouting, script polishing, rehearsals, lighting, dubbing, editing and second-unit directing.

Similarly, around the 3rd century BC, the Brāhmī script developed ( from the Aramaic abjad, it has been hypothesized ).

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

The Old Turkic script evident in epigraphy from the 8th century likely also has its origins in the Aramaic script.

* The widespread Western Arabic numerals used with the Latin script, in the table below labelled European, descended from the West Arabic numerals developed in al-Andalus and the Maghreb.

Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

While his work on deciphering the Maya script gained some support from Alfred Tozzer at Harvard, the main authority on Ancient Maya culture, J. E. S.

The name Barcelona comes from the ancient Iberian Phoenician Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription in Iberian script as Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script, in Ancient Greek sources as, Barkinṓn ; and in Latin as Barcino, Barcilonum and Barceno.

Bash can also read commands from a file, called a script.

With bidirectional script support, it is possible to mix scripts from different scripts on the same page, regardless of writing direction.

Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on what would be his final completed film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.

Although Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, for not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the election of Richard Nixon ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.

The second script that Tarantino sold was Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone.

The script included, for some of SEN's dialogue in the film, excerpts from speeches by Richard Nixon.

As both actors had been reluctant to make romantic films similar to Titanic, it was Winslet who suggested that both should work with her on a film adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates after reading the script by Justin Haythe, knowing that plot had little in common with the 1997 blockbuster.

He transcribed the data using a uniform phonetic script devised by the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius.

According to the supplemental material on the Blu-ray disc release, William Goldman's script, originally called The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy, was purchased by Richard Zanuck at 20th Century Fox for $ 400, 000, double the price the studio's board of directors had authorized.

This was changed for the film version and was subsequently updated for the stage version when Richard O ' Brien revised the script for the 1990 West End revival.

Richard O ’ Brien's revision of the script in 1990 featured a hybrid of the two songs under the title " I Can Make You a Man ", in the 1999 revised script this song was replaced by the film version which continues to be used in all major productions.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " there is an unpretentious realism in Towne's script, and director Ashby handles his camera with a simplicity reminiscent of the way American directors treated lower-depths material in the ' 30s ".

John Taylor, head of the Nixon Presidential Library, leaked a copy of the script to Richard Helms, former Director of the CIA, who threatened to sue the production.

While Rand was working as a script reader for Paramount Pictures, her boss there, Richard Mealand, offered to introduce her to his publishing contacts.

Directed by Michael Hayes and produced by Peter Dews, with a script by Eric Crozier, the production featured Terry Scully as Henry, Mary Morris as Margaret, Julian Glover as York and Paul Daneman as Richard.

Oliver Stone developed a script called Monday Night written by Jamie Williams, a former tight end for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and later the San Francisco 49ers, and Richard Weiner, a sports journalist.

In this version ( per the original shooting script prior to being altered by director Richard Lester for the theatrical version ), the crystal shard imprisoning Zod, Ursa and Non is shattered by the XK-101 rocket Superman threw into space in Superman.

He also appeared as the " special guest star " in the nineteenth episode of the final season, when the scheduled guest, Richard Pryor, was unable to make it to the recording ; a script was hastily written in which " Chris the Delivery Boy " stood in for an absent celebrity.

( The script has been published in Richard Webbers ' book 50 Years of Hancock's Half Hour in 2004.

The script is adapted by Richard Matheson from his own short story, originally published in Playboy magazine.

In 1974, Steinman worked with college friend Barry Keating on a musical called Rhinegold, based on Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, writing the music and co-writing the script.

However, he was asked by Republic Pictures to adapt the music of Richard Wagner for a film biography of the composer, released in Trucolor, as Magic Fire ( 1955 ), directed by William Dieterle from a script by Ewald Andre Dupont.

The press release of this remake stated the script was written for actors Richard Gere and Denzel Washington.

* Richard Sears on seal script

* Chinese Etymology, search-able database of Chinese characters in oracle bone script, by Richard Sears

A script for a sequel, Earthquake II, was written in 1975 and was to feature the characters played by George Kennedy, Victoria Principal, Richard Roundtree and Gabriel Dell.