Why was writing invented so few times throughout history? (self.linguistics)

submitted 2 years ago by Kaladin_Stormblessed to c/linguistics@lemmy.ml

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From what I’ve seen, writing was independently invented somewhere between 3 to 6 times. With so many languages and linguistic communities, why have so few independently invented writing?

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