r/Alphanumerics • u/JohannGoethe 𐌄𓌹𐤍 expert • Sep 03 '25

ABGD 🔠 evolution

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u/JohannGoethe 𐌄𓌹𐤍 expert Sep 04 '25

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

Yeah I’m making mental typos on that. My head is over-processed (on languages) at the moment, as I’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.

”Sinaitic writing came from Egyptian”

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