Second invention of the alphabet?

From: John Cowan
Message: 2231
Date: 2004-05-27

Does the line of scripts leading to Mongolian and Manchu, which descend
from an abjad but which have become fully alphabetic, constitute an
independent invention of the alphabetic principle, or was stimulus
diffusion from Greek operating?

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