Who Really Invented the Alphabet?
Genesis about the Tower of Babel.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
In the Bible’s book of Genesis, monolingual humans aspired to build a "city and tower with its top in the heavens". God punished humans by creating a multitude of languages to sow chaos: "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be... See more
Ruby Justice Thelot • The Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet
The first alphabets in history were the family of scripts known as West Semitic that began to appear in the age of the biblical patriarchs in the region known as Canaan.19