--- title: "3 Alphabet Invented Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Alphabet Invented quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Alphabet Invented sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fd/baron-vaughn-6620_alphabet_the-alphabet-was-invented-in-iraq-so-it_159125.jpg" --- > [The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baron-vaughn/the-alphabet-was-invented-in-iraq-so-it-s-a-cool-place/) [Baron Vaughn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baron-vaughn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fd/baron-vaughn-6620_alphabet_the-alphabet-was-invented-in-iraq-so-it_159125.jpg) > [“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-gleick/the-writing-system-at-the-opposite-extreme-took-the-longest-to-emerge/) [James Gleick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-gleick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ee/james-gleick-2623_writing_the-writing-system-at-the-opposite-extre_1202169.jpg) > [“For example, missionary linguists are working on modified Roman alphabets for hundreds of New Guinea and Native American languages. Government linguists devised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-diamond/for-example-missionary-linguists-are-working-on-modified-roman/) [Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-diamond/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/jared-diamond-2519_modified-cyrillic_for-example-missionary-linguists-are-wor_2493787.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alphabet-invented/#itemlist", "name": "Alphabet Invented Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Baron Vaughn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baron-vaughn/the-alphabet-was-invented-in-iraq-so-it-s-a-cool-place/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fd/baron-vaughn-6620_alphabet_the-alphabet-was-invented-in-iraq-so-it_159125.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fd/baron-vaughn-6620_alphabet_the-alphabet-was-invented-in-iraq-so-it_159125.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fd/baron-vaughn-6620_alphabet_the-alphabet-was-invented-in-iraq-so-it_159125.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.” — Baron Vaughn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet is the most reductive, the most subversive of all scripts. In all the languages of earth there is only one word for alphabet (alfabet, alfabeto, ). The alphabet was invented only once.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Gleick" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-gleick/the-writing-system-at-the-opposite-extreme-took-the-longest-to-emerge/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ee/james-gleick-2623_writing_the-writing-system-at-the-opposite-extre_1202169.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ee/james-gleick-2623_writing_the-writing-system-at-the-opposite-extre_1202169.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ee/james-gleick-2623_writing_the-writing-system-at-the-opposite-extre_1202169.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one…” — James Gleick", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For example, missionary linguists are working on modified Roman alphabets for hundreds of New Guinea and Native American languages. Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia. In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past. For instance, the Cyrillic alphabet itself (the one still used today in Russia) is descended from an adaptation of Greek and Hebrew letters devised by Saint Cyril, a Greek missionary to the Slavs in the ninth century A.D. The first preserved texts for any Germanic language (the language family that includes English) are in the Gothic alphabet created by Bishop Ulfilas, a missionary living with the Visigoths in what is now Bulgaria in the fourth century A.D. Like Saint Cyril’s invention, Ulfilas’s alphabet was a mishmash of letters borrowed from different sources: about 20 Greek letters, about five Roman letters, and two letters either taken from the runic alphabet or invented by Ulfilas himself. 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