Well, OK. The world is anyway lousy with syllabaries and abjads, many of which started life as logograms. And, it is attractive to think there was a first, alt

Well, OK. The world is anyway lousy with syllabaries and abjads, many of which started life as logograms. And, it is attractive to think there was a first, although it is easy to imagine a pair of neighboring scripts both evolving to syllabaries simultaneously.