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Unknown, but I'd hazard a guess that old cave art that depicts animals and sizes probably had sounds associated with them too. Humans like to tell stories, so p
by naasking 2y ago
Unknown, but I'd hazard a guess that old cave art that depicts animals and sizes probably had sounds associated with them too. Humans like to tell stories, so probably cave art had oral history of some kind, and pictures probably became progressively more precise to handle progressively more complex stories, maybe about seasons, places, counting to keep track of things, etc.
- alganet 2y agoThat is a sound idea, but it makes more sense for hieroglyphs and ideograms. My guess for phoenicia is that their alphabet comes from numbers (or maybe other smaller individual set of symbols) borrowed from another culture, but I wouldn't be able to determine from who or where.