This is basically how we got to alphabetic systems in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist

This is basically how we got to alphabetic systems in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet "Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script developed in Ancient Egypt to represent the language of Semitic-speaking workers and slaves in Egypt. Unskilled in the complex hieroglyphic system used to write the Egyptian language, which required a large number of pictograms, they selected a small number of those commonly seen in their surroundings to describe the sounds, as opposed to the semantic values, of their own Canaanite language."