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Writing Systems

Lecturer: Mr. Hong Kiseng

Students:

Batch: 08 Year IVSemester I Room W-101

1. Mr. Leang Channy2. Miss Seng Saksreyney3. Mr. Pha Rakim4. Miss Phien Davy

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1. Communication across Time and Space?

2. Morphemic and Phonetic Script3. Chinese Script – A Morphemic

System4. Roman Script – An Alphabetic

System5. Allographs

Outline

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Do you know any country has no

writing system?

Can you develop one nation without

written language?

How can you study a history of one

country?

1. Communication across Time and Space

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Some societies have no writing

system and no society has developed

a written language and only

subsequently decided to transmit the

utterances orally.

1. Communication across Time and Space

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Writing has played an important part in the

development of society.

Our society requires communication to be

made across space and time.

Writing is allowing you to study the subject

of language without having to travel to a

particular place at a particular time.

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Rival means of communication or

bridging space and time (TV, Phone,

Tape recorder, or Video…), but

writing still develops.

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The written representation of an

object, of a concept, of an action, and

so on may be a direct representation

of the object itself or a

representation of the word that

represents the object.

2. Morphemic and Phonetic Script

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Morphemic are the characters or

graphs <1> and <5> represent a

concept directly.

Phonetic are the written words <one>

and <five> or symbols of symbols

represent the sounds that represent the

concept.

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<Seven> is generally called Phonetic

systems but <Seven> /sevәn/ is called

an Alphabetic system.

Alphabetic are character for each

sound segment or symbols represent

individual speech sounds.

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Syllabic refer to symbols represent

syllables. (Mostly, in Chinese,

Japanese, and Korean symbols) 好 吃 好吃

Hǎo Chī Hǎo chī

Good Eat Delicious

好 看 好看Hǎo Kàn Hǎo kàn

Good Look Attractive

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The writing system that we use

came to us from the Middle East by

way of the Greeks and the Romans.

4. Roman Script – An Alphabetic System

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Runic Alphabets

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Allograph is a member of grapheme

or the variant forms of a written

character (grapheme is a fundamental unit in

a written language: alphabet, punctuation,

number, signature, and any other individual

symbol in a writing system).

5. Allographs

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A and a are Allographs of the grapheme

A in that replacing them does not alter

the meaning of the word, as calm,

CALM and cAlm, except oddness.

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a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?,

?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of

the letter without the diacritic.

a word made by putting together parts of

other words; motel, brunch,

guesstimate.

conforming to the rules of a language.

Allograph is always a great word to know.