Did Egypt start the alphabetical system?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/18/2019

Sort of. The Egyptians had a thousands of different picture symbols, but a small set of 24 of them, called unilaterals, were used to represent consonants. They were mixed in with the other symbols, so it wasn't a purely phonetic system yet.

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