Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
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Why it's on BrighterTube
Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 88% confidenceNativLang is a careful, well-researched linguistics channel; this is its signature video on the origins of writing systems.
What you'll learn
An animated history of writing from tokens and cuneiform through hieroglyphs to alphabets, and why the alphabet was invented only once.
Video by NativLang, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing
Go deeper
- The Language Instinct, Steven PinkerA lively case that language is part of human nature
- The Unfolding of Language, Guy DeutscherHow languages are born, change and grow complex
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