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ALPHABET ORIGINS

Writing
originated in "pictures" which represented single words
and were - as shown below - even multiconsonantal.
Only later did pictographs and hieroglyphs
become syllabic and alphabetic

The Alphabet
originated in "pictures"
and pictures gave way to abstract letters,
as shown below

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