It was based on repurposed Egyptian hieroglyphs though, and it’s mostly agreed that Egyptian is a parent system to it
It's an astonishing fact that just about every modern alphabet is thought to descend from the proto-Canaanite script written by Semitic peoples, including the biblical Israelites, over a thousand years before Christ.
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Sure, but that parent system wasn't an alphabet.
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For western alphabets yes, though it was influenced by Sumerian Akkadian roots wasn’t it? Also, Sanskrit and the Southeast Asian scripts seem of unique origin.
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Even the South Asian scripts are thought to descend from Aramaic scripts, at least according to one school of thought.
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We really don't know whence comes Brahmi — from which dozens of scripts in South Asia and South East Asia have evolved, including the Hindu-Arabic numerals we commonly use. Check out the responses to this tweet: https://twitter.com/omarali50/status/999506016176918528?s=20 … Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#Origins …
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What's more astonishing is it's a translation-tool of a migratory group that's wound up cutting off the visual-sensory richness of the ideogrammatic. It's a quick-fix that simplifies information too simply.
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Not trying to bat for your Rabbi here, but if you are thinking of transferring to team No-shrimp, you might want to call Him Jesus of Nazareth.
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One of the best alphabets is not: Hangul. A logical alphabet based on phonetics created in the 15th Century by the decision of a Korean King:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
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We lost the first Greek written language, right?
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