"A tablet of wood inscribed with the undeciphered #rongorongo script from the Eastern Pacific island #RapaNui [may be example of] one of the few independently invented #writingsystems.
The wood from one of four rongorongo tablets preserved in a collection in Rome dates to between 1493 and 1509 — +200 years before the first recorded arrival of Europeans on the island in the 1720s."
Props to the Finnish National Library for keeping this web exhibition online so long that at least one central fact has become outdated: current understanding seems to favor that writing was independently invented in Egypt! #history#writingSystems
(I checked with a dictionary just now, and this word has non-cooking meanings - "to prepare", "to train", "to learn". But so far Duolingo is focusing on cooking, so I'll stick to that for the moment.)
The Cyrillic "Гг" also matches uppercase Greek gamma "Γ", which was historically /g/ but has undergone a process called lenition or spirantization. It is now pronounced with a sound that linguists actually represent in the #InternationalPhoneticAlphabet with lowercase Greek gamma /ɣ/. It sounds to English ears a bit like a voiced "h", so there is at least a superficial parallel between Ukrainian and Greek.