Where do writing systems come from? Writing as technology

Sometimes you’ll see it said that all the world’s writing systems descend from three original scripts—Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese logograms, or Mayan hieroglyphs. But not all writing systems come from these three scripts! Here's how.

0:00 Three original scripts
0:30 cuneiform vs. hieroglyphs
1:05 Anatolian hieroglyphs
1:12 Linear A
1:19 Mesoamerica & Olmec
1:52 Indus Valley / Harappan script
2:15 Cherokee syllabary
2:48 Canadian syllabics
3:00 Hangul
3:08 Conclusion

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📑 Sources
The Blackwell encyclopedia of writing systems (Coulmas, 1996)
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The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the internet (Gnanadesikan, 2011)
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Wikipedia: History of writing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...)

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