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Not really, the Phoenician alphabet, which considered as origin of the writing system of many western languages created somewhere around 1200 BC. Oldest Chinese
by tanilama 9y ago
Not really, the Phoenician alphabet, which considered as origin of the writing system of many western languages created somewhere around 1200 BC. Oldest Chinese oracle script is discovered around the same time.
- kobeya 9y agoMesopotamian and Egyptian writing goes Back much further than that, and while the alphabet has it’s origin in he Phonician sea peoples, it didn’t become widespread through Europe and Central Asia until the Greek empire a thousand years later. Alphabet like writing systems have been prominent for less than half of written history, hence recent.