[HN Gopher] A Tour of Writing's History
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       A Tour of Writing's History
        
       Author : prostoalex
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-03-02 16:32 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ogogmad wrote:
       | I don't think the alphabet was invented by the Phoenicians...
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       | ...Hold on. The alphabet in the narrow sense of a script with
       | both vowel letters and consonant letters comes from the Greeks.
       | Abjads are quite a bit older though. Check out this abjad from
       | the bronze age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugaritic_alphabet
        
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