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| earliest form of writing. first started out as signs and pictures written in clay. |
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| Pictuers were used to represent words. No syllables yet |
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| first semetic language. Used by babylonians and assyrians. Characters represented syllabels with defined vowels. |
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| Behistun Inscription is a multi lingual inscription located in Iran. Deciphered cuneiform. Had Persian cuneiform, babylonian and elamite. Babylonian was semetic so could translate the others |
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| deciphered hieroglyphics. had two forms of egyptian and classical greek. |
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| Individual phoenetic representation was in egyptian and akkadian. Akkadian evolved into babylonia and assyrian. Semetic language canaanite was represented in Hebrew and Phoenician. |
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