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Geoffrey Sampson
British linguist
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study of writing systems
- In writing: Types of writing systems
…properties led the British linguist Geoffrey Sampson to say:
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…According to the British linguist Geoffrey Sampson, “Most, and probably all, ‘alphabetic’ scripts derive from a single ancestor: the Semitic alphabet, created sometime in the 2nd millennium [bce].” The Semitic script was invented by speakers of some Semitic language, possibly Phoenician, who lived in the northern part of the Fertile…
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