DecodïngTrolls
"About 1700 BCE, someone in Canaan, needing a notational system to keep records...created the [first] alphabet [from which all alphabets descend]...The new script used drawings of common objects, but they designated only the first sound of the name of each object..."
Mar 28, 2023 at 3:06pmWeb
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 28, 2023

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This toot about the #PhoenecianAlphabet us very interesting.

I remembered reading about a simplified script for accounting purposes in #AncientEgypt, #Hieratic script, though.

Hieratic was supposedly developed at about the same time as the #hieroglyphs*, i.e. at least 3,400 BCE, and would therefore be much older than #Canaanite #scripture, i.e. the #PhoenicianAlphabet.

What am I missing?

*https://omniglot.com/writing/egyptian_hieratic.htm

Egyptian Hieratic Script

The Egyptian Hieratic Script was a simplified version of the Hierglyphic Script used for everyday purposes such as record keeping and correspondence.