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reissbakeryesterday at 11:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Egyptian heiroglyphs were not an alphabet, even if they had alphabetic elements (in addition to pictographic ones). Scholars generally agree that proto-Sinaitic was the first alphabet, and all subsequent alphabets used today are either direct descendants or directly inspired by it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet


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ummonktoday at 1:50 AM

Protp-Sinaitic was an abjad not an alphabet.

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