alt Hacker NewsAt least one counter-example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul is technically an alphabet, and is non-Canaanite derived.
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amluto • yesterday at 11:35 PM
It's not quite in the same category, but there's also Zhuyin Fuhao:
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At least one counter-example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul is technically an alphabet, and is non-Canaanite derived.
It's not quite in the same category, but there's also Zhuyin Fuhao:
It wasn't directly cribbed (unlike Western alphabets), but given that Hangul was invented in the 1400s after exposure to Western alphabets, most scholars still consider alphabets to have only been invented once [1] and then copied, much like the wheel. Although I suppose that's true of Cherokee too!
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet