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---Have you ever thought about why the letter "A" is written the way it is? Or why is the letter "B" like that? Who thought of writing these letters like that? Certainly not a single person. Don't even bother with the fact that they are called Latin letters, because they were not invented by a single country or a single culture. If we want to understand how the letters we use today came to be, we need to look at this map. And we draw a big C on the map... Then we turn it the other way...4000 years ago, the Egyptians used a special writing system called "hieroglyphs". There were no letters in this system. There were pictures representing words and concepts. Thousands of them. As you can imagine, it was very difficult for ordinary people to keep so many different shapes in their mind. Therefore, only the wealthy people who can spare money and time and people of important positions could read and write. Only they had the power to put information into writing and thus to control it. But some folks from the Sinai peninsula found a way to simplify this complex system. They said, "Instead of a different shape for every word that comes to our mind, let's use a different shape for every sound that comes out of our mouth." Thus, instead of drawing thousands of pictures to express each thought, 20-30 symbols expressing phonetic sounds became sufficient.