On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:42:51 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> I said the opposite: the alphabets, abjads, abugidas and today's full > syllabaries derive from early simplified syllabaries,... In the Old World, alphabets and abugidas derive from abjads, which do not derive from syllabaries. I'm counting Ancient Egyptian as an abjad, as that is the category that fits the purely phonetic writings best. > ...themselves > derived from simplified pictograms (ideograms becoming phonograms). This bit is true.
