And this is nine parts out of ten in the so-called invention of alphabets.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Its introduction may be very early; nevertheless its epoch must be investigated with a full recognition of the comparatively modern date of even the earliest alphabets of Persia, and the parts westward; early as compared with such a date as 1400, B.C., the accredited epoch of the Vedas; an epoch, perhaps, a thousand years too early.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
While the additional study of phonology or sounds of languages, their idioms and grammars, their roots, and verbs, the alphabets, glyphs and symbols used to communicate ideas, will combine to furnish the complete knowledge of philology as a separate science.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque