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The script was blockish, with a dominant single line across the top and cursive strokes beneath.
Sanskrit or descendant like Hindi.
Urumi whip sword.
Different from their own script, which had been enacted by the Yellow Emperor to ensure that the kingdom could at least communicate via written text if not by speech.
a real thing. Written Chinese is not phonetic, so acted as a bridge across the many different spoken languages and dialects. Example still sen today is Mandarin vs Cantonese - mutually unintelligible to speakers but using the same written characters, with (mostly) same meaning - different from English and French sharing same alphabet but still using it to express the different languages.
