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The Alphabet (18 Dec 2003)
Did the alphabet really spring into life almost fully formed? How did it manage to conquer three quarters of the globe? And despite its Cyrillic and Arabic variations and the myriad languages it has been used to write, why is there essentially only one alphabet anywhere in the world?
Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031218.shtml
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