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How did the alphabet evolve over time?
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[QUOTE="DennisN, post: 6586419, member: 393676"] One of my friends sent a link to this illustration which I found very, very fascinating: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet.png"]295348[/ATTACH] [I](Image by Matt Baker, UsefulChart.com, image source: [/I][URL='https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet.png'][I]link[/I][/URL][I])[/I] If I decipher the chart correctly, e.g. the letter "O" developed from an image of an eye. According to the wiki page about "O" an eye indeed seems to be the origin: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O#History[/URL] More info on wiki here: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet']History of the alphabet[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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