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At least one counter-example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul is technically an alphabet, and is non-Canaanite derived

• amluto 3mo ago
  It's not quite in the same category, but there's also Zhuyin Fuhao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
  • komali2 3mo ago
    I think the idea is that since the inventers of bopomofo were exposed to other alphabets, it's still considered a descendant alphabet. I usually think of descendant as something that visibly manifests its ancestry, so for example modern traditional characters look somewhat like the earliest Chinese characters, or, all romance languages sharing some sounds or even words. So maybe we need a different way to describe things like wheels and alphabets.
• reissbaker 3mo ago
  It wasn't directly cribbed (unlike Western alphabets), but given that Hangul was invented in the 1400s after exposure to Western alphabets, most scholars still consider alphabets to have only been invented once [1] and then copied, much like the wheel. Although I suppose that's true of Cherokee too! 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet
• yorwba 3mo ago
  The Wikipedia article on Hangul has been rewritten over the years to deemphasize the evidence for a not-purely-de-novo origin, but you can still find it if you click the right links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul#Hypothesized_inspirations_for_Hangul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul#Hypothesized_...