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the world has been able to develop a true alphabetic
writing. The more or less civilized peoples of Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Crete, Asia Minor, Indus Valley, China,
Central America, reached an advanced stage in the
history of writing, but could not get beyond the
transitional stage. A few peoples (the ancient Cypriotes,
the Japanese and others), developed a syllabary. But only
the Syro-Palestinian Semites produced a genius who
created the alphabetic writing, from which have
descended all past and present alphabets.
Each important civilization modifies its script and
time may make its relation to some of its near relatives
quite unrecognizable. Thus, the Brahmi, the great mother-
script of India, the Korean alphabet, the Mongolian scripts
are derived from the same source as the Greek, the Latin,
the Runic, the Hebrew, the Arabic, the Russian alphabet,