What is the ancestry of the Proto-Sinaitic script?
Chinese scripts
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Almost all alphabetic scripts
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Answer
Almost all alphabetic scripts are descended from Proto-Sinaitic script, a script that was used to write the Semitic languages of the Sinai Peninsula during the Bronze Age. It is the earliest known alphabet, and is thought to have developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphic script.
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