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Thank you, this is fascinating! Do you have any recommended reading?

Unfortunately, I don’t recall exactly which sources I read on this, it was many years ago. I just recall that it started as one of those “wild link chases” on Wikipedia and ended up deep in some downloaded textbook PDFs :)

But I do recall enjoying diagrams such as this illustrating how different modern alphabets are related via historical counterparts (there are similar diagrams showing how Hebrew and Arabic emerges from Phoenician, as well as comparisons to runes): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#/media/File%3A...

I also rather enjoyed reading about the history from Hieroglyphs, to Hieratic, to Phoenician (as well as Phoenician history in general). But unfortunately, don’t recall where. Start with Wikipedia :)

Thanks! I used to have an old dictionary that traced the evolution of the letters, it was quite cool. There is a book 'Textual Scholarship' by Greetham that goes deep on the more modern letterforms like Uncial. I haven't cracked that in a while.

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