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vkazanov on Nov 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective

And Greek alphabet is sort of a base for both major groups of European alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic.

Can we just say greek-based alphabets?

messe on Nov 11, 2024 [–]

Let's just go further back, and say Egyptian hieroglyph derived.

vkazanov on Nov 11, 2024 | [–]

Surprisingly, I wanted to correct you but the phoenician alphabet is thought to be derived from Egyptian as well.

So egyptian it is.

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