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Cuneiform writing thus served different functions; that is, from its original use for pictograms, it became stylized to the point where the images were unrecognizable without decoding.
The Hittites, who spoke a language with some Indo-European characteristics, also wrote in cuneiform, as did the speakers of Old Persian, a true Indo-European language.
In some cases, an accompanying illustration displays the alphabets available; for example, the Alaph [ sic ] Beth Font Kit includes Aramaic (Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth century fonts), Assyrian/Babylonian, Coptic, Cuneiform (Ras Shamra and Ugaritic), Hieroglyphics (+850), North Semitic, Phoenician, Sabæan, and Syriac (Estrangelo, Serto, and Eastern scripts).
Ugaritic, another Semitic language, was also written in cuneiform.
For us who can read and count and take such matters so much for granted, it seems impossible to believe that it took more than 500 years (2500-2000 BC) for the Sumerians to reduce their cuneiform character inventory from 800 to about 500.