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A script in which distinct letters represent both consonant and vowel phonemes as separate, roughly equal graphemes, per Peter T. Daniels and William Bright's typology in The World's Writing Systems. Belongs here: Latin Script, Cyrillic Script, Greek Script, Armenian Alphabet, Georgian Script, Coptic Alphabet, Glagolitic Alphabet, Mongolian Script, Runic Alphabet (Elder Futhark), Younger Futhark, and Hangul, which despite deriving its letter shapes from articulatory features functions as a true alphabet, each shape a discrete consonant or vowel letter, and is classified here as this atlas's own live script-type data already records. Does not belong here: a script that omits vowels as separate letters, an abjad, or one that writes them as marks attached to a consonant, an abugida.

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1840 BCE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Alphabet
Wikimedia FoundationHistory, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets
Quote, History, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets
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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