r/linguistics • u/wonderful_mixture • Nov 23 '24

500 years older than previously thought: Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city

https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient-alphabet-discovered-syria/
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u/SarradenaXwadzja 24d ago

...How do they know it's alphabetic?

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