906: Cyrillic and Cuneiform Jun 2, 2017

There are a great number of alphabets from all over the world, all with different names. Some names for writing systems, perhaps most, come from the name of the language for which they were intended to be used, such as Arabic or Georgian. Also, 'Cyrillic' is used for many languages, generally Slavic ones, names after St. Cyril who invented it based off of the Greek alphabet to better fit Slavonic; part of the reason for that was that most of the initial uses were ecclesiastical, so the East Orthodox church would have wanted to be closer to the Greek Orthodox church rather than the Catholic church. Cuneiform got its name, deriving from the Latin, 'cuneus' meaning 'wedge' not from the language not the creator, but because of the wedge-shaped marks that make up the individual characters. People writing in this system pressed a tool into clay, with different orientations and combinations.