
Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy
Conlangery Podcast
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Qnaiform - What Is It?
The way writing started in the ancient Near East were pretty sure is They had little clay tokens that people would pass around to do business. Most of what is preserved for us of clay as a writing material comes to us by accident usually war Business offices temple offices got burnt down which baked the clay. The next material is Papyrus from Egypt And it's very delicate and a real pain in the butt to make Mm-hmm.
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