Today I learned on Nostr: TIL the Latin alphabet used by the Romans is derived from the Etruscan alphabet, ...

TIL the Latin alphabet used by the Romans is derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which is derived from the Greek colony in Italy Cumae's Western Greek alphabet, which is derived from the Phoenician alphabet, which is derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet
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