#history the origin and beginnings of writing are located in Mesopotamia, in the archaic tablets found in the Sumerian cities found on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the oldest belong to the city of Uruk, a pioneer in urban life, writing and public administration, with about 40,000 inhabitants. They are difficult to date, although they are considered to belong to a period between 3400 and 3200 BC, cuneiform signs begin to be written with an awl in the clay, to account for the product and the quantity. Two copies are made of these, one for the temple and one for the merchant

From the Semitic languages, the first known alphabet emerged in 1300 BC., specifically, in the city of Ugarit, between Syria and Palestine Canaan, where numerous tablets written in about eight different languages have been found, one of which is of Semitic origin and has an alphabet of thirty letters From here derive two alphabets, Phoenician and Aramaic; from the latter and its non-Semitic variant they could derive all the alphabets of India, the mother of which would be Davanagaric, from which Sanskrit, Tamil, Burmese, etc derive., and the Phoenician alphabet will be inspired by the Greeks, who add the vowels, from them the Romans learn, and from Latin, the rest of the European languages.

History of Writing