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History of the alphabet

Proto-Sinaitic alphabet 19 c. BCE

Ugaritic 15 c. BCE
Proto-Canaanite 14 c. BCE
- Phoenician 12 c. BCE
  - Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE
    - Samaritan 6 c. BCE
  - Aramaic 8 c. BCE
    - Kharoṣṭhī 4 c. BCE
    - Brāhmī 4 c. BCE
      - Brahmic family (see)
        e.g. Devanagari 13 c. CE
    - Hebrew 3 c. BCE
    - Thaana 4 c. BCE
    - Pahlavi 3 c. BCE
      - Avestan 4 c. CE
    - Palmyrene 2 c. BCE
    - Syriac 2 c. BCE
      - Sogdian 2 c. BCE
        Orkhon (Old Turkic) 6 c. CE
        Old Hungarian ca. 650
        
        Old Uyghur
        Mongolian 1204 hh
      - Nabataean 2 c. BCE
        Arabic 4 c. CE
    - Mandaic 2 c. CE
  - Greek 8 c. BCE
    - Etruscan 8 c. BCE
      - Latin 7 c. BCE
      - Runic 2 c. CE
      - Ogham 4 c. CE
    - Coptic 3 c. CE
    - Gothic 3 c. CE
    - Armenian 405
    - Georgian ca. 430 CE
    - Glagolitic 862
    - Cyrillic ca. 940
      - Old Permic 1372
  - Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE
- Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE
  - Ge’ez 5–6 c. BCE

Meroitic (from Egyptian) 3 c. BCE

Kana (From Chinese Character) 8 c. CE

Hangul (partly from Brahmic) 1443

Cherokee (partly from Latin and Greek) c. 1820

Vai (unknown, possibly from Cherokee) c. 1830

Zhuyin (aka Bopomofo, from Chinese) 1913

Yi Script (Origin not known) after the 1970s became syllabic

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