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History of the alphabet
Graphical descent from
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs
32nd
c.
BCE
Hieratic
32nd c. BCE
Demotic
7th c. BCE
Meroitic
3rd c. BCE
Proto-Sinaitic
19th c. BCE
Ugaritic
15th c. BCE
Epigraphic South Arabian
9th c. BCE
Geʽez
5–6th c. BCE
Phoenician
12th c. BCE
Paleo-Hebrew
10th c. BCE
Samaritan
6th c. BCE
Aramaic
8th c. BCE
Kharosthi
3rd c. BCE
Brahmi
3rd c. BCE
Brahmic family
(see)
Pallava
4th c. CE
Cham
4th c. CE
Dhives Akuru
6th c. CE
Khmer
611 CE
Tibetan
7th c. CE
Phagspa
1269 CE
Devanagari
10th c. CE
Canadian Aboriginal
1840
Hebrew
3rd c. BCE
Square Aramaic Alphabet
2007
Pahlavi
3rd c. BCE
Avestan
4th c. CE
Palmyrene
2nd c. BCE
Nabataean
2nd c. BCE
Arabic
4th c. CE
N'Ko
1949 CE
Syriac
2nd c. BCE
Sogdian
2nd c. BCE
Orkhon
(old Turkic)
6th c. CE
Old Hungarian
c.
650 CE
Old Uyghur
Mongolian
1204 CE
Mandaic
2nd c. CE
Greek
8th c. BCE
Etruscan
8th c. BCE
Latin
7th c. BCE
Cherokee
(syllabary; letter forms only)
c.
1820 CE
Vai
(syllabary)
c.
1832 CE
Deseret
1854 CE
Great Lakes Algonquian
19th c. CE
Blackfoot
(influence from Canadian) 1888 CE
Fraser
(Old Lisu) 1915 CE
Saanich
1978 CE
Osage
2006 CE
Runic
2nd c. CE
Ogham
(origin uncertain) 4th c. CE
Lycian
5th c. BCE
Coptic
(influence from Demotic) 3rd c. CE
Gothic
3rd c. CE
Armenian
405 CE
Caucasian Albanian
(origin uncertain)
c.
420 CE
Georgian
(origin uncertain)
c.
430 CE
Glagolitic
862 CE
Cyrillic
c.
940 CE
Old Permic
1372 CE
Libyco-Berber
10th c. BCE
Tifinagh
4th c. CE
Neo-Tifinagh
1970 CE
Paleohispanic
(semi-syllabic) 7th c. BCE
Graphically independent
Hangul
1443 CE (proposed connection to Phagspa)
Thaana
c.
1601 CE
Adlam
1989 CE
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