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A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet

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142 points diodorus | 1 comments | 13 Jan 25 20:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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gschizas ◴[17 Jan 25 09:21 UTC] No.42735618[source]▶
As far as I can understand that's not a real alphabet, it's an abjad (consonants only)
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1. leoh ◴[17 Jan 25 16:57 UTC] No.42740244[source]▶
The Hebrew alphabet does not include vowels.