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Language
Development of language, writing systems, and communication.
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Pure Symbols of Turkey, 9500-8000 BC Göbekli Tepe, 7500 BC Çatalhöyük
Permalink to Pure Symbols of Turkey, 9500-8000 BC Göbekli Tepe, 7500 BC Çatalhöyük- Archive of all Gobekli Tepe symbols
- Archive of all Çatalhöyük symbols
Sumerian
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Akkadian
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- 2334 BC to 153 BC in present day Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia/Sumer/Akkad/Uruk
Egyptian Hieroglyphs - 3100 BC
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The first complete sentence in Ancient Egyptian, from the tomb of Seth-Peribsen:
Babylonian
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Elamite
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- 2600 BC to 330 BC in present day Iran
Phoenician
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Demotic
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Coptic
Permalink to Coptic- Coptic alphabet