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Written Languages, Ancient Alphabets, Ancient Scripts, Ancient Writing, Character Prompts, Alphabet Code, Hidden Truths, Phonetic Alphabet, Moon Reading

Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

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Aramaic (ארמית, Arāmît): The Aramaic alphabet was adaptaed from the Phoenician alphabet during the 8th century BC and was used to write the Aramaic language until about 600 AD. The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script. (...) Aramaic Alphabet, Ancient Alphabet, Learn Hebrew Alphabet, Aramaic Language, Phoenician Alphabet, Hebrew Language Words, Alphabet Dating, Hebrew Art, Ancient Alphabets

Aramaic (ארמית, Arāmît): The Aramaic alphabet was adaptaed from the Phoenician alphabet during the 8th century BC and was used to write the Aramaic language until about 600 AD. The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script. (...)

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The Ramblings of a Multi-tasking Mama: Hieroglyphs and Cuneiform Alfabeto Viking, Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics, Code Alphabet, Egypt Hieroglyphics, Starověký Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Ancient Alphabets, Egiptul Antic, Alphabet Code

Chapter 3 - The First Writing, Story of The World Today we read chapter 3 which was a short chapter on the earliest people to use writings, i.e. the Egyptians and Sumerians. The girls then cut out the relevant lapbooking piece from The Chronicles of the Earth blog. They had to write something in both hieroglyphs and cuneiform into a little fold over matchbook. I printed out the heiroglyph alphabet from here Heiroglyph Chart and each girl then wrote something for the other person to decipher…

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Language Family Tree, Daily Knowledge, Language Tree, World Language, خريطة ذهنية, Language Families, Fotografi Kota, European Languages, Learn Facts

The Old World Language Families infographic from Stand Still Stay Silent Comic shows the “roots” of our modern languages. Follow each language’s path from bush to roots and discover how closely languages are related to each other. Language trees for the language lovers! I’ve gathered

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