Gantt Chart - π’† π’‰ˆ Writing Systems

π’‰ˆπ’†  Writing Systems Timeline

π’† π’‰ˆ Languages
Script Time Period Region Key Features
𒐀 Proto-Cuneiform 3400 BCE Mesopotamia Pictographic system used for accounting.
Later evolved into Cuneiform for administrative records.
π’£π’€π’€Š Cuneiform 3100 BCE – 100 CE Mesopotamia Wedge-shaped symbols pressed into clay.
Used for legal, religious, and literary texts.
π“‚€ Egyptian Hieroglyphs 3100 BCE – 400 CE Egypt Complex logograms with phonetic elements.
Used in temples, tombs, and royal decrees.
𐀏𐀍𐀍𐀅 Phoenician Alphabet 1050 BCE – 150 BCE Phoenicia First widely adopted phonetic alphabet.
Basis for Greek, Latin, and modern alphabets.
π‘€π‘“π‘Œπ‘‰π‘Š Aramaic Script 900 BCE – 600 CE Mesopotamia, Persia, Levant Lingua franca of the Near East.
Influenced Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac scripts.
𐂁 Linear B 1450 BCE – 1200 BCE Mycenaean Greece Syllabic script used for economic records.
First known written form of Greek.
𐎠𐎢𐎭𐎢 Old Persian Cuneiform 525 BCE – 330 BCE Persia Syllabic script for royal inscriptions.
Used in monumental texts of Achaemenid Empire.
αš±αš’αšΎα›αš² Runic Alphabets 2nd – 12th century CE Scandinavia, Germany, Britain Carved inscriptions on stone and wood.
Used for magical and memorial inscriptions.
αš›αš‘αšŒαš†αšαš‹αšœ Ogham 4th – 6th century CE Ireland Vertical line carvings on stone.
Possibly used for clan names and boundary markers.