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History of the alphabet

Egyptian hieroglyphs 32 c. BCE

• Hieratic 32 c. BCE
  • Demotic 7 c. BCE
    • Meroitic 3 c. BCE
• Proto-Sinaitic 19 c. BCE
  • Ugaritic 15 c. BCE
  • Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE
    • Ge’ez 5–6 c. BCE
  • Canaanite-Phoenician alphabet 12 c. BCE
    • Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE
      • Samaritan 6 c. BCE
    • Saharan rock art
      • Libyco-Berber 3 c. BCE
        • Tifinagh 3 c. BCE
          • Neo-Tifinagh 1965 CE
    • Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE
      • Southern Paleohispanic scripts
        • Espanca script
        • Southwestern script (or Tartessian)
        • Southeastern Iberian script
      • Northern Paleohispanic scripts
        • Northeastern Iberian script
        • Celtiberian script
      • Greco-Iberian alphabet
    • Aramaic 8 c. BCE
      • Kharoṣṭhī 4 c. BCE
      • Brāhmī 4 c. BCE - Brahmic family (see) E.g.
        • Gupta script 1 c. CE
          • Siddhaṃ script 6 c. CE
            • Tibetan 7 c. CE
              • ʼPhags-pa script 13 c. CE
                • Hangul (Partly) 1443 CE
          • Nāgarī script 7 c. CE
            • Devanagari 10 c. CE
              • Canadian syllabics 1840 CE
        • Grantha alphabet 6 c. CE
          • Dhives Akuru 12 c. CE
        • Thaana alphabet (derived from Brahmi numerals) 18 c. CE
      • Hebrew 3 c. BCE
        • Kana 800 CE
        • Yiddish 13 c. CE
        • Square Aramaic Alphabet
      • Pahlavi 3 c. BCE
        • Avestan 4 c. CE
      • Palmyrene 2 c. BCE
      • Syriac 2 c. BCE
        • Nabataean 2 c. BCE
          • Arabic 4 c. CE
            • N'Ko 1949 CE
            • Adlam (slight influence from Arabic) 1989 CE
        • Sogdian 2 c. BCE
          • Orkhon (old Turkic) 6 c. CE
            • Old Hungarian c. 650 CE
          • Old Uyghur
            • Mongolian 1204 CE
              • Manchu 1599 CE
      • Mandaic 2 c. CE
    • Greek 8 c. BCE
      • Alphabets of Asia Minor 8 c. BCE
        • Lydian script 5 c. BCE
        • Para-Lydian script
        • Carian script
        • Lycian script 5 c. BCE
        • Sidetic script
        • Pisidian script
        • Phrygian script
      • Etruscan alphabet 7 c. BCE
        • Old Italic alphabet 8 c. BCE
          • Elder Futhark 2 c. CE
            • Futhorc 5 c. CE
            • Younger Futhark 8 c. CE
          • Latin 7 c. BCE - Latin family (see) E.g.
            • English alphabet 7 c. CE
            • French alphabet
            • German alphabet
          • Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE
            • Vai syllabary (Possibly) 1830s CE
          • Runic 2 c. CE
      • Ogham (origin uncertain) 4 c. CE
      • Coptic (augmented by Demotic) 3 c. CE
      • Gothic 3 c. CE
      • Armenian 405 CE
      • Georgian (origin uncertain) c. 430 CE
      • Glagolitic 862 CE
      • Cyrillic c. 940 CE
        • Old Permic 1372 CE
        • Cherokee (see Latin)
• Chinese Characters 13 c. BCE - Chinese family (see) E.g.
  • Kana 800 CE
  • Chữ Nôm 13 c. CE
  • Zhuyin 1913 CE

Mesopotamian cuneiform 32 c. BCE

• Ugaritic (shape influenced) 15 c. BCE
• Old Persian cuneiform (apparently inspired) 525 BCE

Indus script 26 c. BCE

Cretan hieroglyphs (Possible ancestor of Linear A) 21 c. BCE

• Linear A 18 c. BCE
  • Linear B 15 c. BCE
  • Cypro-Minoan syllabary 16 c. BCE
    • Cypriot syllabary 11 c. BCE

Anatolian hieroglyphs 14 c. BCE

Mesoamerican family (see) E.g.

• Maya script 3 c. BCE

Dongba symbols 10 c. CE

• Geba syllabary

Yi script 15 c. CE (syllabic version established in 1974)

Bamum script 1896 CE

• Bagam script 1900 CE

Osmanya alphabet 1920s CE

Santali alphabet (or Ol Chiki script) 1925 CE

Borama alphabet 1933 CE

N'Ko script 1949 CE

Kaddare script (resembling Osmanya script and Brahmi script.) 1952 CE

Mru script 1980s CE

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