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Writing appeared in Mesopotamia more than five thousand years ago. Alphabets, syllabaries and raised systems came later. Some were created for languages with no written form. Secret codes follow the same story. Without it history would not have reached us.
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by Ibrahim Njoya
A king gives his people a script and only the queen mother encourages him. The script called shü-mom starts from pictograms linked to letters and grows simpler with time.
Photo: kwami (talk) Uploaded by Kwamikagami at en.wikipedia (Public domain)
by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
A "divine revelation" drove an Ivorian civil servant to invent a script to save his people's culture from oblivion. In 1956 Frédéric Bruly Bouabré devised a syllabary to write Bété.
Photo: Nigkru (CC BY-SA 4.0)
by Sequoyah
A Cherokee silversmith rejected the accepted ideas about writing. He worked tirelessly for a year on a plan to put his language on paper, while his friends and neighbours thought he had lost his mind.
Photo: Sakurambo at English Wikipedia (Public domain)
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