It was both a means of communication and record keeping.
No; it's written in its own alphabet. It is based off of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, like Cyrillic, so you can say that they have a very distant common ancestor (in a way).
Probably not much, the war was a distant memory by the time John Howard got going in politics.
The gravity from the Sun is a distant force, but does contribute to the tides.
The development of the National Railway System in the United States took place in 1916. This aimed to reduce the cost of moving goods to distant markets.
the most distant
No, the word distant is not a noun; distant is an adjective, a word that describes a noun (distant thunder, distantcity).The noun is distance.
world will change in very distant future. The destination is very distant yet.
The suffix of "distant" is "-ant."
The prefix for distant is "dis-".
Distant Stars was created in 1981.
They can be. Something that is far away is distant. but in "How far did you come", you could not substitute distant.
Distant is an adjective.