When was letter invented

Comment: Again, the writer is mixing up an alphabet with a language. This is terribly confused: they are not the same thing at all. Comment: confusion of language and writing again. Runes were used to transcribe other languages as well as Anglo-Saxon. Otherwise what you write is, frankly, inaccurate and misleading.

People, you have all been wrong for almost 70 years. I need the earliest african written alphabet letters translated. From a to z.

The 1st ancient African written next to it translated in English? Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Origins of Alphabetic Writing Dating back nearly four thousand years, early alphabetic writing, as opposed to other early forms of writing like cuneiform which employed the use of different wedge shapes or hieroglyphics which primarily used pictographic symbols , relied on simple lines to represent spoken sounds.

Many different ancient societies invented writing at different times and places. It seems writing was such a great idea, it just kept being created by humans living in all different parts of the world. Thousands of years ago, people lived in Mesopotamia near the modern day Middle East , Egypt, China , and Mesoamerica near what we now call Central America.

These different groups all invented their own kind of writing independently. For example, the ancient Mayans in Mesoamerica had their own written language, which would have looked strange to the Sumerian people who lived in Mesopotamia. They had their own writing style, called cuneiform. There were also ancient people who lived in the Indus River valley near what we now call Pakistan and India who also developed their own kind of writing.

Ancient people in Elam near what we now call Iran invented another type of writing. There is also the mysterious Rongorongo script from the people of Easter Island also called Rapa Nui , which no one has been able to read — at least, not yet! There was also plenty of copying and borrowing among ancient writers who came across other writing systems when they travelled.

Recommended for you. Who invented the elevator? Who Is Cupid? Who created the Pledge of Allegiance? Who were the Molly Maguires? It was the Greeks who developed the first writing utensils that resemble the pen and paper we know today. They made a pen from bone, metal, or ivory and used it to place marks on a type of waxed table; so it was in Greece where we see the first examples of handwriting.

Then writing started moving beyond markings on wet clay or drawings and images on stone. In India, the Chinese philosopher, Tien-Lcheu, invented India Ink: this was a mixture of soot from oil lamps and smoked pine, and by BCE the ink had become a very common writing tool.

Other Eastern cultures later developed inks using natural colors and dyes derived from plants, berries and minerals. Who Invented Writing?