The Spread of Writing: Every Year

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• OL

  @OllieBye · 4 years ago · pinned

  I noticed after exporting there are a couple of animation errors:<br>Belize goes pink for less than a second around 1788, and the Sahara goes grey for a similar amount of time around 1909. Just ignore this.<br><br>Thanks for watching!

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• V-

  @V-man117 · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s crazy what a massive impact Greek had to the world. Considering Latin and Cyrillic were based on them. Fascinating!

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• SO

  @SomasAcademy · 4 years ago

  One questionable element of this video is listing Egyptian Hieroglyphs as a sub-group of Cuneiform. &nbsp;While this was once assumed to be the case simply because they were close together and Cuneiform was older, we have since found Hieroglyphic tags from 3200-3400 BCE at Abydos, pointing to an origin of Hieroglyphs before the development of full cuneiform. &nbsp;Additionally, Egyptian hieroglyphs are stylistically very distinct from Cuneiform, bearing more resemblance to pre-literate Egyptian artwork (much as Cuneiform bears clear connection to Mesopotamia pictographs), so while the concept of writing may have been introduced from Mesopotamia, the signs themselves were almost certainly indigenous to Egypt.

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• CU

  @cube_cup · 4 years ago

  The Mongolian script has been co-official in Mongolia again since 2020. They&apos;re working on having all official documents in that script available too in 2025

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• RI

  @Rightonrightoff · 1 year ago

  All the respect to Ethiopia. To maintain the same language for as long as they did is amazing not to mention how early it was founded. What an incredible history.

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• US

  @user-uf2df6zf5w · 4 years ago

  Remember : many of the writing systems remained in use alongside new, dominant ones. For example, cuneiform is here replaced by arameic around 500 bc, however it was in reality used well into the first century AD.<br>But showing this would make the video a mass.

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• MA

  @mammamia1628 · 2 years ago

  Love the random details that were completely unnecessary for this video, but were still included like the the Aral sea drying out :D

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• WI

  @WildsDreams45 · 4 years ago

  I didn&apos;t realize how long it took the Japanese to develop writing and it&apos;s impressive that the Central Americans developed writing despite being in total isolation from everyone else.

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• EL

  @elchuro · 1 year ago

  Although the “clerical script” and “seal script” coexisted for a relatively long period, especially considering the distinction between official documents and common writing in ancient China, I think it might be more accurate to push the beginning of “clerical script” to 202 BCE.

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• IA

  @iaf010 · 4 years ago

  Its incredible how early and how vastly varied writing systems developed in India.

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• DA

  @DailyKosia · 4 years ago

  Very interesting work and professionally animated.<br><br>I liked Latin letters changing font with time, especially &nbsp;with the invention of typography. (Cyrillic lettrrs and font changed &nbsp;also with time, but as for Latin, it&apos;s a detaio and isn&apos;t the main purpose of the video).

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• BF

  @BFDT-4 · 4 years ago

  You even documented the demise of the Aral Sea! I saw that, and was duly impressed!

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