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The Egyptian Background of Early Alphabetic Writing

Ben J. J. Haring, 2025.

MYS0DEDPKNZB213 · mystery · click to copyMProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetChapter0

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In G. Kim and H. Kim (eds), The Dawn of Writing Systems, Incheon: National Museum of World Writing Systems, 239-254; open copy in the Leiden repository. A current Egyptological summary: the Wadi el-Hol texts remain unread, the Twelfth Dynasty date is strong but not certain, and Egyptian uniconsonantal signs are a conceptual source.

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Ben J. J. Haring (2025). The Egyptian Background of Early Alphabetic Writing. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item:4210941/view
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