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How to write in Cuneiform

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100 points PaulHoule | 4 comments | 09 Oct 25 22:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.841s | source
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eloisius ◴[10 Oct 25 00:00 UTC] No.45534254[source]▶
> Like Japan’s kanji alphabet, the oldest writing system in the world is syllabic.

I think they have that mixed up with hiragana and katakana. Kanji are Chinese characters.

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1. user982 ◴[10 Oct 25 00:11 UTC] No.45534310[source]▶
Additionally, syllabaries (like the kana) are not alphabets.
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2. CobrastanJorji ◴[10 Oct 25 04:08 UTC] No.45535291[source]▶
You are technically correct! Alphabets (ABC) are for phonemes, syllabaries are for syllables (hiragana, Cherokee), logograms are for words (chinese characters). Of course, some writing systems are very much hybrids (like Chinese, or hieroglyphics, or even the humble ampersand).
3. thaumasiotes ◴[10 Oct 25 04:49 UTC] No.45535457[source]▶
Nonsense.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alphabet

> al·pha·bet

> a set of letters or other characters with which one or more languages are written especially if arranged in a customary order

And then it shows an Alphabet Table beginning with Hebrew and Arabic.

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