• LANGUAGE
o ~60 phonetic sounds used to express oral language
o ~12 inflections added to modify message (clarify punctuation)
 Statement
 Exclamation
 Question
 Not (negation of statement)
 etc
o writing
 initially a few hundred symbol for words and ideas, hieroglyphs
 as the "calendar" method of research/experimentation/documentation became more recognized, one individual began to examine the sounds that made up their language and over his/her life identified 60 sounds, making spelling of words completely phonetic.
 The next generation in that family continued the study, defining a further 60 symbols to represent the oral inflections, number system (base 12) and time
 3 more generations tested and refined the system before the community brought it to the next community fairs to present and share
 Over the next 400 years, the characters and symbols were adopted by every community, and remained the only non hieroglyphic writing amongst the people