[blam]

[muawiyah]

Still, the alphabet derived from Phoenicia has a direct path back through the Egyptian hieroglyphs from which those letters were drawn to the Sumerian scribes who GAVE hieroglyphs to the Egyptians.

Syllabary's are different ~ e.g. Korean, Cherokee, etc.

We actually have historic records identifying those inventors.

There's a possibility that a body of Sumerian hieroglyphs were drawn from a body of shamanistic symbols developed in Central Asia many thousands of years earlier.

Still, many of the Sumerian hieroglyphs are clearly a result of rolling livestock and granary markers in mud.

[Lester Moore]

How is it that Arabic isn't derived from Proto-Arabic?
Nor Hebrew from Old Hebrew?
I don't understand the graph.