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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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.
Even the South Asian scripts are thought to descend from Aramaic scripts, at least according to one school of thought.
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Really? Hadn’t heard that one before. My uncle was a big Sanskrit scholar, if you have any information about this link I’d be interested to see it.
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