Day 298 of 365
October 25
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Language The Origins of Writing Systems
Writing systems evolved from pictographs to ideographs to phonetic systems. Alphabets, representing individual sounds, are the most efficient - English uses 26 letters to write all words. Chinese uses thousands of characters but is consistent across dialects.
💡 Did you know?
Only about 100 writing systems have ever been invented, but most are now extinct!
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