HOW THE ALPHABET WAS INVENTED [Robin Allott]

See http://www.percepp.com/alphabet.htm
The Inventor drew pictures in the sand of a speaker's face as he pronounced the different speech-sounds going to form the alphabet. He then picked out from each face the distinctive articulatory elements for each sound.
To create the alphabet he combined in one visual shape the articulatory elements going to form that sound, together with his own observation of the relative positions of his tongue and teeth.
[See http://www,percepp.com/alphabet.htm for the complete presentation]

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[MrSaintastic]

Love the mullet!

[turkicredmantalks]

with all due respect could there be a chance that writing in Eurasia developed as proposed here /watch?v=qzICDHC-ohs from pictures.

[PeeteyP]

this is an interesting approach to the question, but you're way off the mark. modern Alphabets like Cherokee and Hangul were invented in this fashion, but archeological evidence shows that alphabets grew out of older pictographic writing systems. I think that alphabets would have grown out of the phonetic (rebus) symbols of pictographs. [remember, all pictographic writing contains rebus phonetic symbols]