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Oh. The text wasn't very long, and this quote was basically the core and climax.

It made the interesting claim that all modern alphabets are thought to have developed from the Phoenician one.

"Bull", I thought and went on a Wikipedia spree, but it seems to be potentially true. Even Devanāgarī is tentatively thought to have come from Phoenician via Aramaic via Brāhmī, but this is still a point of controversy.

Mesoamerican scripts, East Asian scripts and African scripts that do not come from Phoenician are not alphabets, they're idiographic, syllabaries or alphasyllabaries.