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| Alcuin of York, at Charlemagne's
orders, set up a school for monks and instituted some writing standards that
are still our conventions today. |
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| Emperor Fu-Hsi (2852-2738 B.C.)
was the legendary inventor of the Chinese script. |
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| Mesrop Mashtotz tried to
adapt existing alphabets to his language, Armenian. |
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| The Mongolian alphabet was the work of three Tibetan
lamas |
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| Moses, educated Hebrew leader,
was "educated in all the learning of the Egyptians." He was contemporaneous
with the development of the Old Hebrew alphabet. |
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| Panini wrote a grammar of Sanskrit
some time between the 7th and the 4th centuries B.C. The rediscovery of Panini's
grammar lead to the development of linguistic science in Western Europe in
the 19th century. |
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| King Ramkhamhaeng adapted
the Kampuchean alphabet, derived from South Indic, to the writing of Thai. |
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| King Sejong of Korea (1397-1450)
wanted his people to be literate, so he tried to promote literacy by creating
an entirely new, scientific alphabet, representing the individual sounds of
the spoken language. |
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| Sequoyah (c. 1765-1843),
though illiterate himself, created a writing system which allowed his people
to become literate in a few months. |
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| Ulfilas (311-382), created
an alphabet based on Greek and Roman letters that corresponded to the speech
sounds of Visigoth. For other sounds, he used runes, an early Germanic alphabet
of limited use. |
