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➠ LANGUAGE GENEALOGY — 233 WRITING SYSTEMS
All human scripts descend from a single source:
Sundaland / Proto-Indus ~7,000 BCE. CZ 3.23.
CZ ratio: closeness to source frequency (1.0 = neutral, >1 = closer, <1 = more evolved)
18 language families:
1. Dravidian & South Asian (168 scripts)
Proto-Indus/Sundaland CZ 3.50 B30
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Brahmi...
2. Semitic (18 scripts)
Proto-Semitic CZ 1.50 B33
Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician...
3. Indo-European (12 scripts)
Proto-I-E CZ 1.50 B72
Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Persian...
4. Sino-Tibetan (6 scripts)
Chinese CZ 2.25 B13
Mandarin, Tibetan, Burmese...
5. Egyptian (3 scripts)
Egyptian CZ 2.72 B30
Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic
6. Afroasiatic (3 scripts)
Proto-Afroasiatic CZ 2.20 B33
7. Austronesian (3 scripts)
Proto-Austronesian CZ 2.00 B13
8. Niger-Congo (2 scripts)
Proto-Niger-Congo CZ 1.20 B33
9. Nilo-Saharan (2 scripts)
Proto-Nilo-Saharan CZ 1.10 B25
10. Cushitic (2 scripts)
CZ 1.60 B33
11. Omotic (2 scripts)
CZ 1.50 B33
12. Hattic (2 scripts)
CZ 3.50 B30
13. Minoan (2 scripts)
Linear A CZ 2.20 B33
14. Etruscan (2 scripts)
CZ 2.14 B62
15. Mesoamerican (2 scripts)
Mayan, Aztec
16. Austroasiatic (2 scripts)
Munda CZ 2.40 B13
17. Polynesian (2 scripts)
Proto-Polynesian CZ 1.80 B17
18. Constructed & Unknown (remaining scripts)
Rongorongo CZ 1.11, Voynich CZ 0.67
Full tree at spectralorchestra.com/bureau/languages
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