Script status records how actively a writing system is still used today, from thriving to purely historical. Wikipedia notes the Latin script "is the most widely adopted writing system in the world," a status few scripts in history have ever come close to. This dimension separates scripts still in daily use from those kept only for scholarship.
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1. Wikipedia: Alphabet
Wikimedia FoundationHistory, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets (Proto-Sinaitic, the Phoenician abjad's own ancestor)Quote, History, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets (Proto-Sinaitic, the Phoenician abjad's own ancestor)
In the Middle Bronze Age, an apparently alphabetic system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script appeared in Egyptian turquoise mines in the Sinai Peninsula c. 1840 BC, apparently left by Canaanite workers.
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