<P> The Phoenician writing system was adapted from the Proto - Canaanite script in around the 11th century BC, which in turn borrowed ideas from Egyptian hieroglyphics . This script was adapted by the Greeks . A variant of the early Greek alphabet gave rise to the Etruscan alphabet, and its own descendants, such as the Latin alphabet . Other descendants from the Greek alphabet include the Cyrillic script, used to write Russian, among others . </P> <P> The Phoenician system was also adapted into the Aramaic script, from which the Hebrew script and also that of Arabic are descended . </P> <P> In China, the early oracle bone script has survived on tens of thousands of oracle bones dating from around 1400 - 1200 B.C. in the Shang Dynasty . Out of more than 2500 written characters in use in China in about 1200 BC, as many as 1400 are identifiable as the source of later standard Chinese characters . </P> <P> Of several pre-Columbian scripts in Mesoamerica, the one that appears to have been best developed, and the one to be deciphered the most, is the Maya script . The earliest inscriptions which are identifiably Maya date to the 3rd century B.C., and writing was in continuous use until shortly after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century . In Chinese civilization, in school the children were not allowed to scribble . They were not to write slanted or sloppy charterers . </P>

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