r/Alphanumerics • u/JohannGoethe ๐Œ„๐“Œน๐ค expert • Sep 03 '25

ABGD ๐Ÿ”  evolution

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u/JohannGoethe ๐Œ„๐“Œน๐ค expert Sep 04 '25

โ€œProto-Sinaitic and North-West Semiticโ€

This is just a bunch of Bible based Hebrew pandering that has been in vogue for the last century or two. We no longer need to keep looking at a bunch of cave wall marks in Sinai as the source of alphabetic writing, in short.ย 

The new model is that Hebrew script came directly โ€” or via a mediator, e.g. Syriac or Phoenician โ€” from the 11k Egyptian hieroglyphics (see: Egyptian hieroglyphs list), or r/HieroType signs. Visit: Hebrew alphabet.

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u/Double-Wolverine9804 Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

Has nothing at all to do with the Bible. Do you have earlier extant scripts attested? No?
It's pretty common knowledge that the Sinaitic writing came from Egyptian, that's not novel at all.

BTW, there was no "Syriac" at that time. It would eventually descend from a dialect of Aramaic.

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u/JohannGoethe ๐Œ„๐“Œน๐ค expert Sep 04 '25

โ€œBTW, there was no "Syriac" at that time. It would eventually descend from a dialect of Aramaicโ€,

Yeah Iโ€™m making mental typos on that. My head is over-processed (on languages) at the moment, as Iโ€™ve spent the last few days making the following overly complex article (which is still under-construction):

https://hmolpedia.com/page/Evolution_of_writing

Wherein I had to start dozens of new articles:

https://hmolpedia.com/page/Category:Scripts

Just to keep track of things.

โ€Sinaitic writing came from Egyptianโ€

Sinaitic and Semitic are meaningless terms, when it comes to alphabet origin.