Admetus t1_je4xe9f wrote
Reply to comment by oochre in TIL the majority of ancient Greeks and Romans that were literate read out loud. Reasons for this include a lack of space between letters and no formalized system of punctuation that helped with pauses in reading. by Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse
Makes sense to me if these languages began as a recital, like a chant. They may have began as oral traditions after all.
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