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Welcome back to What Is? — the channel that takes humanity’s biggest ideas and explains them in under two minutes!

Today, we’re answering: What is a writing system?

From ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern alphabets, we explore how humans learned to trap sound, meaning, and memory on paper (and eventually, phone screens).

You’ll discover:
✍️ The difference between pictographic, logographic, and phonetic systems
🦉 How ancient symbols evolved into the letters we use today
📜 Why writing systems are the foundation of civilization itself

Language isn’t just spoken — it’s drawn, shaped, and shared across centuries.

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