>I think our writing system would likely be more similar to Korean and Japanese syllable systems. I don't think there's any reason to suppose that. Syllabaries

>I think our writing system would likely be more similar to Korean and Japanese syllable systems. I don't think there's any reason to suppose that. Syllabaries like Japan's lend themselves to a certain kind of language, specifically one with a bunch of open syllables and simple onsets. Linear B seems to have been a pretty poor system for writing Greek, with lot's of vague approximations (e.g. 'pe-ma' for the word sperma), so unless the Greek of Linear B had less complex onsets and codas than the Ancient Greek we know, I don't imagine it would have stuck around in that form much longer anyway. Incidentally Korean hangul is organized into syllable blocks in imitation of Chinese characters but is alphabetic in every other sense, which is actually good evidence for how writing will be changed or reinvented to fit the spoken language.