Languages written names every language a given script is actually used to write. Wikipedia notes the Latin script "is used to write over 3,000 languages, spoken by about 70% of the global population," by far the widest reach of any writing system. This dimension shows how many separate languages one script actually serves.
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Era Of Emergence Language(s) Written
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1. Wikipedia: Cuneiform
Wikimedia FoundationHistory, Sumerian pictographs sectionQuote, History, Sumerian pictographs section
The first unequivocal written documents start with the Uruk IV period, from c. 3300 BC, followed by tablets found in Uruk III, Jemdet Nasr, Early Dynastic I Ur and Susa (in Proto-Elamite) dating to the period until c. 2900 BC.
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