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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It was based on repurposed Egyptian hieroglyphs though, and it’s mostly agreed that Egyptian is a parent system to it
Sure, but that parent system wasn't an alphabet.
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Yes, my point being that the way we write derived from a 5,000 year old script, which is even more mind boggling
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To be fully fair, proto-Canaanite script wasn’t an alphabet either
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Yes, Phoenician is commonly considered the first true alphabet
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