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August 5, 2017

History of Writing – The Alphabet – Extra History

Filed under: Greece, History, Middle East, Technology — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 05:00

Published on Jul 29, 2017

Where did the alphabet come from? How did it develop, and why? The writing systems first developed in Sumer provided a basis for the written word, but their system of characters also inspired a shift to single phoneme systems where each letter represents a distinct sound.

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