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Hieroglyphs

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  • Egyptian
  • logographic
  • read left-right, top-bottom
2
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Cuneiform

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  • Sumerian, Assyrin/Babylonian, Amorites, Hittites
  • cuneus: wedge
  • forma: shape
3
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Linear A

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  • undeciphered
  • maybe syllabic or ideographic?
  • read left to right
  • Minoan Civilization
4
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Linear B

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  • syllabic
  • linear: written in line
  • read left to right
  • approx. 87 syllabic signs, over 100 ideographic signs
5
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Phoneician

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-oldest, first alphabet system
-22 letters, all consanants
-reads right-left, sometimes boustrophedon
-derived from hieroglyphs
-parent system of
~Hebrew
~Aramaic
~Greek

6
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Greek (Ancient)

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  • alphabet systems-24 letters, consanants & vowels
  • left-right, sometimes boustrophedon
  • developed into dialects
7
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Latin

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  • Greek>Etruscan>Latin
  • read left-right
  • classical-23 letters
8
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Order

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Hieroglyphs
Cuneiform
Linear A
Linear B
Phoenician
Greek
Latin