Holger Dansk wrote:
Written language began about 3,000 years ago.

Wrong again, BTW.

The Sumerians began writing with pictographs around 3,200 BCW (a little over
5,000 years ago). The Egyptians developed hieroglyphic writing around the
same time. People in the Indus valley were writing by 2,500 BC, using both
pictographs and alphabetic symbols for individual characters. See
http://www.english.uga.edu/~hypertxt...y-writing.html
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