Could Europe develop an "alphabet" that follows the Chinese model? What I mean by this is a written language that is logographic, so can be mutually intelligible for multiple spoken languages. How about a system akin to the Korean alphabet, one that uses phonetic blocks rather than letters? Is the lack of such innovations because of Roman and Greek cultural hegemony? If so, would such writing systems have to be invented later, perhaps during the Enlightenment? If invented before widespread literacy, how would the different written scripts fare? Chinese is notoriously difficult to learn, and Korean can be learned in a few hours. Would this affect the social structure in any way?