Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the feat of astonishing intellectual engineering which provides us with millions of words in hundreds of languages.
This website is a little hard to navigate, but it is full of fascinating information about writing, langue and alphabets. Navigate your way to the "L'évolution des caractères" page, where you will find graphics which describe the evolution of each letter since the invention of writing.
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