Photograph, fotografia, φωτογραφία(fotografia for you Latin alphabet lovers),Foto...
European languages are said to have only a few indoeuropean ancestors, except for distinct local flavors such as basque. If this is true, the differences in the use of the allmorphs f and pH are striking. If one geographically maps the use of the allomorphs it is clear that various nations utilize different morphemes regardless of regions.
The two languages which have come to dominate Europe and the world in terms of root graphemes and phonemes are Latin and Greek. The Latin word for photograph is literally photograph, while the Greek version( when written in the Latin alphabet) is fotografia, just as it is in Spanish.
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This selection theory explains the cause of the difference in Fn language generations where n is greater than 1(meaning after the parent langisges , Latin or Greek) but it does not explain why Greek and Latin had such different philosophies(filosofias or philosofiam) regarding the glyphs.
Logically,oral language almost always precedes its Lexigraphical equivalent. This is why oral languages such as Navajo or Navaho exist without a written counterpart, but there are no known major languages which are written and have no oral equivalent. Therefore ph~f rift must have occured early on long before any later event such as the East-West schism of 1054 could have so divided the Latin and Greek worlds.
The Greek alphabet weighs in at a low 23 letters(letters in the traditional sense of English-Cryllic alphabet species) whileiys Latin also came in at 23 during the classical period.
Greek came before Latin, naturally it may have less features, and would integrate less languages( although now its monoculturizing towards English) with less lexiconic isomers such as ph and f.
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