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Is it true that europeans never invented writing and it was brought to them from the middle east and it evolved over time? If so is the same thing true for the wheel?
>>464859
No.
>what is Ancient Greece
>what is Rome
>>464936
didnt their alphabet evolve from the Phoenicians or something? If so, that's not an example of europeans inventing their own written language.
>>464859
>Is it true that europeans never invented writing and it was brought to them from the middle east and it evolved over time?
It makes sense, since writing existed before there existed any civilization outside of the middle east.
>>464859
It's true that Europeans basically never invented anything.
>>464936
Our alphabet diverged from Ancient Egyptian script (probably demotic), then Phoenician, Minoan, Greek, Latin.
>>465009
so europeans never invented their own alphabet without the influence of outsiders? What about those Norse runes? Does that count as a written language?
>>465011
This script, Ogham, was the insular Celtic script used by Gaels and Brits before the cultural domination of the Romans replaced it.
>>465011
Norse runes are also derived from the phonician alphabet, that's why they're so similar to greek and latin letters.
>>465017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
>It appears that the ogham alphabet was modelled on another script,[7] and some even consider it a mere cipher of its template script (Düwel 1968:[8] points out similarity with ciphers of Germanic runes). The largest number of scholars favours the Latin alphabet as this template,[citation needed] although the Elder Futhark and even the Greek alphabet have their supporters.[9]
>>465024
>There are two main schools of thought among scholars as to the motivation for the creation of ogham. Scholars such as Carney and MacNeill have suggested that ogham was first created as a cryptic alphabet, designed by the Irish so as not to be understood by those with a knowledge of the Latin alphabet.[11][12] With this school of thought, it is asserted that the alphabet was created by Irish scholars or druids for political, military or religious reasons to provide a secret means of communication in opposition to the authorities of Roman Britain.
Iceland, where your "cipher runes" are found, was settled by the Norse and their Celtic slaves. It seems like a marrying of the two systems, if anything else.
>Most mitochondrial DNA lineages found today in contemporary Icelanders can be traced to the native populations in Ireland and Britain and Scandinavia.
I remember reading somewhere that 40%~ of Icelandic DNA is "Celtic (Gaelic, Brythonic)", while 60%~ is "Nordic".
>>464859
FYI, India and China are two places where writing was supposedly invented independently of the outside world. Not so Europe.
