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During the Stone Age, humans began “writing” by using images to express what they felt. Written language emerged when people replaced images with pictographic symbols.
Around 6000 years ago, in regions such as Abylone, China, and Greece, humans used their fingers or sticks to draw on clay what they perceived.
Subsequently, people learned to use symbols, initially in the form of images, to convey their thoughts. In the fourth millennium BCE, a tribe known as the Sumerians from Southern Mesopotamia invented cuneiform writing (wedge-shaped writing). They inscribed characters in a “wedge” shape (like a nail head) onto clay using sharpened reeds.
About 1500 years BCE, the Phoenicians created an alphabet based on sounds, which is quite similar to our current alphabet.
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