Alphabet - World History Encyclopedia
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The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus
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Alphabet - World History Encyclopedia
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