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Script type sorts writing systems by how their symbols encode language, such as an alphabet, a syllabary or a logography. Wikipedia notes that "alphabets use graphemes called letters that generally correspond to spoken phonemes," a different mechanism from a syllabary's syllable signs or a logography's whole-word symbols. This dimension groups scripts that encode language the same structural way.

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1840 BCE 1
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Alphabet

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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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