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Fascinating! I was more or less aware of the main progression of alphabetic scripts from Proto-Sinaitic to Phoenician, then splitting to Hebraic, Greek, and Ara
by webmaven 6y ago
Fascinating! I was more or less aware of the main progression of alphabetic scripts from Proto-Sinaitic to Phoenician, then splitting to Hebraic, Greek, and Aramaic branches, but I had no idea there was such a proliferation of scripts before the Phoenician.
- redis_mlc 6y agoSumerian writing started 2,000 years before Phoenician. The origins of Sumerian writing are unknown, so it's unique until the Akaddians (nearby city) also adopted it. Literacy was lost for several centuries after the Bronze Age Collapse because all the scribes died of war and famine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language#Writing_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language#Writing_syst...
- lolthishuman 6y agoThere’s more evidence. 6 millennium bc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_symbols There’s another I found recently but I forgot the name.