This is a beautiful graphic of an amazing process and every time I see it all I can think about is how it looks like Q got gradually squeezed out of the goth letter clique

I thought Phoenician came from Egyptian Heiroglyphics! Source: My studies as a linguistics major.

Such a neat graphic! Could you please tell me where is it from? I'd like to show some students and I always add references.

I just fundamentally don't understand why C K and S haven't been rationalised after all this time. Come ON people.

who was this little guy who never changed and didn't make the cut?

Reminds me of a parallel universe sci-fi story where, during an initial hop which they thought had failed, the discovered the parallel dimension was identical to their own, with the exception that it didn’t contain the letter J. Must have missed a transition from ancient to modern Latin I guess.

This is legit? This is about the coolest thing I have ever seen.

so the I became the Z and the Z became the I. and M got invented, forgotten, then reinvented

The letter I started off as the pot smoking acid dropper in high school who now is the straight laced customer service manager who only lets loose once a year when he goes to the Grateful Dead concert at Alpine Valley.

I lost some weight 🤭😂