Influenced names the later scripts that grew out of an earlier one. Wikipedia notes "the Greek alphabet is the ancestor of several scripts, such as the Latin, Gothic, Coptic, and Cyrillic scripts," a lineage still visible in shared letterforms today. This dimension traces which newer scripts a given script helped shape.
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1. Wikipedia: Alphabet
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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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