For those who are interested, the main Kickstarter reward that this was connected to is this much larger and more detailed chart:https://usefulcharts.com/products/writing-systems-of-the-world …
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Made this chart last year as a Kickstarter award but am now making the image available as a free download. Just right click and save and feel free to share.pic.twitter.com/4BLh0aEBsT
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And for those who have questions about the various transitions, I actually made a video about it here:https://youtu.be/4VNVCxi9TL8
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I've posted a higher-res version and answered several questions here:https://usefulcharts.com/blogs/charts/evolution-of-the-english-alphabet …
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Ok, for those who would prefer the title to read "Latin Alphabet", here you go...pic.twitter.com/mzLUyUHLiY
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@qikipedia and love this. Any chance we could feature it on our Twitter? We'd credit you, of course, and link to your website (if wanted). -
Of course! A link to my website would be wonderful.
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Up to you. Main page would be great or if you want the page that relates most to the alphabet chart, it would be this one:https://usefulcharts.com/products/writing-systems-of-the-world …
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Was Proto-Sinactic also a precursor to Arabic script? Does anyone know?
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Yes. It certainly was. Both Hebrew and Arabic evolved from Phoenician, which evolved from Proto-Sinaitic. You can see the correlations with Arabic in the video (see my 3rd tweet in the original thread above for the link).
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How do Egyptian hieroglyphics fit in? I was taught that the Phoenicians adapted a lot of them.
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The Proto Sinaitic symbols are thought to be copies of Egyptian hieroglyphs with different values attached.
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Do you know of a chart that shows how the two map to each other?
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Unfortunately, no.
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It seems to me that both proto-Hebrew and Norse Runes, being two very significant influences, are missing entirely...? It's pretty though.
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I have a much larger version that includes them: https://usefulcharts.com/products/writing-systems-of-the-world …
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Ooooh! I likes! Very cool!!
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Great chart. Are all the Hieroglyphs corresponding to the Proto-Sinaitic characters well known? If so you could add those too!
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That's actually where it starts to get really iffy.
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Yep, I can imagine. But we're pretty sure they all descend from Egyptian hieroglyphs, right? Just not which ones...
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Exactly.
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