Luwian hieroglyphs were used in Bronze Age Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) and was related to the Hittite language and script. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) ![]() Year Created or Date of Earliest Known Text: c.1400 BCE However, no texts from before the Shang Dynasty have been found. While oracle bone script is the earliest known form of Chinese writing, historians believe that there was a writing system before oracle bone script because its a well-developed system. By around the 1 st millennium BCE, oracle bone script became less common. The texts are pyromantic divinations from the last nine kings of the Shang Dynasty. Most of the known examples of oracle bone script were discovered at the Yinxu archaeological site (modern-day Anyang, Henan Province). ![]() ![]() Dating back to around 1250 BCE - but most likely was first used much earlier - oracle bone script represented Archaic Chinese, which is the oldest attested stage of the Chinese language.Īs its name suggests, oracle bone script is found on oracle bones (animal bones or turtle plastrons used in divination). The oracle bone script is one of the oldest writing systems that is directly related to a modern written language. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons via BabelStone ![]() Year Created or Date of Earliest Known Text: c.1250 (but most likely much earlier)
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