Re: Second invention of the alphabet?

At 08:53 -0400 2004-05-27, John Cowan wrote:

>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?

Was there Greek stimulus in Mongolia and Manchuria?
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