all those problems, some languages (Chinese, for example) to this day still use the logographic script. The proto-Semitic, the mother tongue of the Biblical Hebrew and all other Semitic languages (Arabic, Akkadian, Aramaic etc.) used this kind of symbol system. The earliest form of this script that we have is from the Sinai desert and represents a Canaanite dialect of the 16th century B.C.E. Anyhow, in most cases this stage is bound to be replaced with a more abstract stage. The two common options