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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.