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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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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