The Umbric people could receive a syllabic system from the Songke, who received it from the Handapachi and Tiledem, who received it from the Kaltek.Egerius wrote:And the Umbric people?qwed117 wrote:Edit: I thought that Kaltek was Gixpoyan for a second Whoops
Well I thought about a syllabilary system like Linear B or Cypriot.
Other examples include the Ndjuka syllabary of South America, many African writing systems like Bamum and Vai, the Woleaian syllabary of Oceania, and Pahawh Hmong of Southeast Asia.loglorn wrote:The prototypical instance of what he's talking about is the Sequoia syllabary. The people who devised hangeul were proficient in hanzi, another writing system, while Sequoia was illiterate.qwed117 wrote:That sounds like hangeul.smappy wrote:On Earth a lot of writing systems were invented independently of other writing systems because the inventors were aware of writing in other cultures.
That is, the concept of writing was borrowed but the actual writing system was invented independently.
Maybe that's what happens on Teles?
Alternatively, I think it's fine if the Kaltek system is created completely independently of the Vrkhazian system and the Ydtobogȧniaky system. After all, if those two which are so close together were created independently, why not have a third one far away?
Some argue that Chinese might be a further example (after all, a lot of Chinese things like bronze, the saddle, and Buddhism were borrowed from other sources). Brahmi of India might be derived from Aramaic or it might be independent in the same sense as the Cherokee syllabary. Proto-Sinaitic, the ancestor of Phoenician, Greek, Latin, etc. was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, which were probably inspired by Sumerian cuneiform...it seems that this pattern might apply to most writing systems besides Sumerian cuneiform and Mesoamerican writing.