It’s possible that there are some remnants of cuneiform in modern scripts. It was widely used by all the neighbours of the Mesopotamians.
It’s notable though that the Western Semites, the Canaanites, the Hebrews, Aramaeans, were more in the Egyptian sphere of influence and they went on to propagate their script to the Europeans and the Arabs. How they went on to influence the development of Indian scripts was a surprise to me.
It misses a very important development of the scripture in the Roman Empire, the early usage of the all caps Capitalis Cursiva and the splitting in to the Roman cursive or minusculus and the Carolingian minuscule. Leading to a lot of mistranslations and misunderstandings of older scriptures especially those on wax tablets, the tabula cerata.
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I wonder how the Mesopotamian scripts work into this picture. It seems like some of the languages have multiple ancestors.
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It’s possible that there are some remnants of cuneiform in modern scripts. It was widely used by all the neighbours of the Mesopotamians.
It’s notable though that the Western Semites, the Canaanites, the Hebrews, Aramaeans, were more in the Egyptian sphere of influence and they went on to propagate their script to the Europeans and the Arabs. How they went on to influence the development of Indian scripts was a surprise to me.
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It misses a very important development of the scripture in the Roman Empire, the early usage of the all caps Capitalis Cursiva and the splitting in to the Roman cursive or minusculus and the Carolingian minuscule. Leading to a lot of mistranslations and misunderstandings of older scriptures especially those on wax tablets, the tabula cerata.
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It’s possible the Egyptians got the concept of writing from the Mesopotamians but made their own. There was trade from very early times.
The Phags-pa/Hangul connection is a strongly-argued thesis but not conclusively proven. See en.m.wikipedia.org – Gari Ledyard – Wikipedia
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According to Olivier Malinur, it also misses an entire branch of scripts that were propagated along the Northern African coast by the Phoenicians.
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Yes, the tifinagh script. It’s a script used by Berbers and Tuareg. It is official writing in Morocco and maybe in Libya.
For example, Tuaregs are called Kel Tamasheq and it spells ⴾⵍ ⵜⵎⵛⵈ
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By the way, tifinagh means “Punic writing” ( finagh>pinakh> Punic). Ti is for feminine.
And tifinagh is part of Unicode, U+2D30 to U+2D7F.
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Apparently this is the source (or at least best I found):
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Fascinating history John Hardy!
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thanks john..this is very innteresting
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