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Semitic-speaking people create a script whose letters stand for consonants; most, and probably all, later alphabets descend from it.
c. 1800 BCE – c. 1500 BCE
Invention of the alphabet. Semitic-speaking people create a script whose letters stand for consonants; most, and probably all, later alphabets descend from it.
The invention of the alphabet followed from the invention of writing.
According to David R. Olson.
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