The evolution of the Cuneiform character set. Sumerian pictures evolved into syllabic ymbols used by many languages for almost two thousand years before the Phoenicians developed the singlesound symbols we know as an alphabet. The evolution of the hoenician character set from the ProtoSinaitic glyphs.These are the pictographs found in the Sinai peninsula, ca. 1500 BC and are assumed to be the source of the sound symbols developed several centuries later by the Phoenicians,

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