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How to write in Cuneiform

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100 points PaulHoule | 2 comments | 09 Oct 25 22:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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user982 ◴[10 Oct 25 00:11 UTC] No.45534310[source]▶
Additionally, syllabaries (like the kana) are not alphabets.
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1. 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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