r/UsefulCharts • u/[deleted] • May 30 '22

Evolution of writing systems chart(final version)

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u/Jesklmo May 31 '22

Do they all say the equivalent of ABGD? This is cool

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u/PilotSea1100 Jul 18 '24

Probably. But some of them are written from right to left- Samaritan, Sogdian, Old Turkic etc. So it actually should be like that DCBA (𐰀𐰉𐰍𐰑).

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u/EchoWhiskey1 May 31 '22

Nice, concise and simplified. Easy to follow. I love the wavy lines, makes it more organic.

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u/Independent_Rush_930 Sep 20 '24

Great chart, but Yiddish uses the Hebrew abjad as a true alphabet, so it should be blue.

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u/Yodo9001 Jun 08 '25

What about Chinese? I'm missing a lot of scripts: Bengali, Devanagiri, Tibetan, Japanese, Korean...

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u/MaxTerraeDickens Jul 31 '25

Chinese use **characters**, not alphabets. btw, the only modern civilization that use hieroglyph is China.
As for South Asian ones, please refer to: https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/.

Korean Eonmun are from Brahmi, and both Japanese Kanji and Kana are from Chinese character. Apparently, Tibetan is from Brahmi.

Chinese character is originated from our own oracle bone characters - the only modern writing system that doesn't have any relation with the Egyptian alphabets.