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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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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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