Editing Writing (section)

=== Development of the alphabet ===
{{Main|History of the alphabet}}
The [[Proto-Sinaitic]] script, in which [[Proto-Canaanite]] is believed to have been first written, is attested as early as the 19th century&nbsp;BC. The [[Phoenician alphabet]] was adapted from the Proto-Canaanite script sometime before the 14th century&nbsp;BC, which in turn borrowed principles of representing phonetic information from [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]]. This writing system was an odd sort of syllabary in which only consonants are represented. This script was adapted by the [[Greek alphabet|Greeks]], who adapted certain consonantal signs to represent their vowels. The [[Cumae alphabet]], a variant of the early Greek alphabet, gave rise to the [[Etruscan alphabet]] and its own descendants, such as the [[Latin alphabet]] and [[rune]]s. Other descendants from the [[Greek alphabet]] include [[Cyrillic]], used to write [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Serbian language|Serbian]], among others. The Phoenician system was also adapted into the [[Aramaic script]], from which the [[Hebrew script|Hebrew]] and the [[Arabic script]]s are descended.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}