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Which developed first, human language or hieroglyphics?

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Complex spoken (or sometimes signed) language occurs in every human society regardless of technological prowess. Also, almost all children acquire their first spoken or signed language without instruction. As for drawing, the lack of captions in the earliest cave painting suggests that it came before writing did. read more

Nobody knows for sure since language doesn't fossilise. However, I think it's a safe bet that spoken language came long before written language. read more

Egyptian hieroglyphs developed into a mature writing system used for monumental inscription in the classical language of the Middle Kingdom period; during this period, the system made use of about 900 distinct signs. read more

The first pure alphabets (properly,"abjads", mapping single symbols to single phonemes, but not necessarily each phoneme to a symbol) emerged around 1800 BC in Ancient Egypt, as a representation of language developed by Semitic workers in Egypt, but by then alphabetic principles had a slight possibility of being inculcated into Egyptian hieroglyphs for upwards of a millennium. read more

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