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- Who invented the alphabet? https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/08/who-invented-alphabet/ 166 comments
- Who Invented the Alphabet? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventing-alphabet-180976520/ 110 comments
- Aussie restaurateur Paul Mathis invents new letter of the Alphabet http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/news/aussie-restaurateur-paul-mathis-invents-new-letter-of-the-alphabet/story-fni0bzoc-1226675974506 2 comments
- Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde https://news.microsoft.com/stories/people/adlam.html?ocid=lock 59 comments
- Who Invented the Alphabet? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventing-alphabet-180976520/ 6 comments linguistics
- Aussie restaurateur Paul Mathis invents new letter of the Alphabet http://www.news.com.au/technology/aussie-restaurateur-paul-mathis-invents-new-letter-of-the-alphabet/story-e6frfro0-1226675974506 4 comments nottheonion
- Who Invented the Alphabet? New scholarship points to a paradox of historic scope: Our writing system was devised by people who couldn’t read. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventing-alphabet-180976520/ 22 comments anthropology
- The Beautiful Mystery of the Codex Seraphinianus - The entire text of the book is written in an invented language, & alphabet, which nobody has ever been able to decipher. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/10/codex_seraphinianus_new_edition_out.html 8 comments history
- Who invented the alphabet? « The reigning academic consensus has been that highly educated people must have created the alphabet. But Goldwasser’s research is upending that notion. She suggests that it was actually a group of illiterate Canaanite miners who made the breakthrough. » https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventing-alphabet-180976520 274 comments history