Yes, and, it appears that they boorrowed and modified the Egyptian signs earlier than the Ugaritic inventors of the alphabetic script. There does not seem a connection between the two, or is there? It is however interesting that two separate scripts appeared roughly in the same time, give or take a couple of centuries. A script, incidentally, that uses, with some changes, but in practically the same order, the very letters of our electronic correspondence.
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