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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

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[A7X]

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[Stargate Atlantis]

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[Merlin]

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[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]

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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]

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[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]

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[Meet the Robinsons]

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[Blood+]

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[Monty Python's Flying Circus]

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[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]

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Writing was invented independently multiple times around the world, but the alphabet was invented only once. It appears to have been invented to write Canaanite with signs that were pictographic in origin and may be related to Egyptian hieroglyphs. All subsequent alphabetic scripts, from anywhere in the world, were either descended from this Proto-Canaanite/Proto-Sianitic alphabet or were invented by people who knew of at least one alphabet descended from it. The Phoenician alphabet evolved out of the Proto-Sianitic script and then Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and turned some of the consonantal symbols into vowels (Proto-Sianitic and Phoenician did not have vowel signs). The Greek alphabet was adopted by the Etruscans, who then transmitted it to the Romans... which is where the alphabet I'm typing in comes from. The Arabic and Hebrew scripts are also descended from the Sianitic/Phoenician alphabet.

In addition to the alphabet of pictograph-derived signs, a cuneiform alphabetic script called Ugaritic was also invented to write a Canaanite dialect. Most cuneiform scripts were syllabic, being borrowed/modified versions of Sumerian-Babylonian cuneiform.

While Etruscan was written in the Greek alphabet, we hardly know any of the language and no one has been able to discern any relationship between Etruscan and any known language. The main problem is that there is not enough Etruscan text in existence - most inscriptions are just proper names of people and places, or dates, on tombs and personal items, with no particularly long texts that could teach us new words. (The Indus valley script presents a similar problem - all short inscriptions, mostly on stone seals - but we don't even know what sounds the signs are supposed to make.)

Wait, I thought Mayans created their writing system independent of other systems?

Whoops, nevermind.

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