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Influenced

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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1200 BCE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Oracle Bone Script
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The oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC.
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