Who invented spelling?

Answer 1

Capital letters (modern) were adapted (invented) by the Ancient Romans. However, capital letters were the only letters available. Lowercase letters were adapted later from the Roman hand-script.

Answer 2

Spelling and grammar became important in most early civilizations, where the order of pictographs could change their meaning. Hebrew, in particular, developed accents and punctuation that could change what a word meant. Greek and Latin both had codified rules of spelling for their written documents.

That being said, names and place name spellings were among the last things to be definitively determined in modern languages, in some cases as late as the 19th century in English.

Answer 3

We will never know who the first human to write a letter was. However, we do know writing was invented by the Sumerians, so it is very likely they invented letter writing.

Answer 4

One day Rein Delabrege was writing slowly and lazily when he noticed that it looked like a fancy form of writing

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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