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大約公元前3200年，蘇美人創造出世界上最早的文字；埃及文字首次顯示出字母的觀念；迦南人、腓尼基人、希臘人接力，逐步發展出完整的字母系統，最終奠定歐洲文明的基礎。腓尼基字母也衍生出阿拉米亞、印度及上百種亞洲文字。
The Sumerians created the earliest writing around 3200 BC. Egyptian writing first showed the idea of an alphabet. Canaanites, Phoenicians, and Greeks each carried the idea forward, developing a full alphabetic system that became the foundation of European civilization — while Phoenician also gave rise to Aramaic, Indian, and over a hundred Asian scripts.
羅馬帝國衰弱後，拉丁文字衍生出法語、義大利語、德語、西班牙語、英語五大語言文字。本書接著講述日語、美國 Cherokee 語、韓語、土耳其語四個著名的文字革命，並介紹芬蘭語文與人造語言世界語（Esperanto）。
After Rome's decline, Latin script gave rise to French, Italian, German, Spanish, and English writing. This part also tells the writing-revolution stories of Japanese, Cherokee, Korean, and Turkish, and closes with Finnish and the constructed language Esperanto.
字母文字科學、簡單、適應性強：不到50個字母就能寫出世界上絕大多數語言。賓州大學 Victor Mair 教授指出，台語書寫走上 ABC（羅馬字）是正確的道路。
Alphabetic writing is scientific, simple, and adaptable — fewer than 50 letters can write most of the world's languages. Professor Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) argues that romanized ABC is the right path for written Taiwanese.