I would like discovery fiction on the invention of written language, please!
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The work of Stanislas Dehaene might be of parallel interest - looks at the neurological history of reading’s development in the brain over our biological evolution:
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This looks great, thanks!
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Cuneiform, from what I've heard, works very similarly to Japanese kanji and kana
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Incidentally, have you heard of the Caroline Island script? A missionary tried to teach the Woleaians the Latin alphabet, but didn't stay there very long and died shortly after. So they learned of the concept of writing and knew what the Latin alphabet looked like, but /
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