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The DevelopmentofWriting
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Pictograms Pictogram picture writing
Modern forms of pictograms lead you
to the phone booth, bus stop, coffeeshop and to the restrooms at theairport (even if you don't speak and
read the particular language).
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Pictograms
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Ideograms When a pictogram takes a more fixed
symbolic form and comes to be used
for instance not only to represent'sun' but also 'heat' and 'daytime', itis considered as part of a system ofidea-writing or ideograms.
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A key property of both pictogramsand ideograms is that they do not
represent words or sounds in aparticular language.
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Logograms
A large number of symbols in laterwriting systems are thought to havepictographic or ideographic origins.
When the symbols come to representwords in a language, they are describedas examples of word-writing or
logograms.
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In Egyptian hieroglyphicsmeans 'house'(and derives from adiagram representing the floor-planof a house.)
In Chinese writingmeans 'river'(and derives from thepictural description of a streamflowing between two banks.)
Logograms
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Cuneiform
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Cuneiform
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Chinese
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Rebus Writing The process of Rebus writing is a
way of using existing symbols to
represent the sounds of language. The symbol for one entity is takenover as the symbol for the sound of
the spoken word that is used torefer to that entity.
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This, of course, establishes asizeable reduction of the number of
symbols needed in a writing system. /ba/ means 'boat
'/baba/ means 'father'
Rebus Writing
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Modern Rebus Writing
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Modern
RebusWriting
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Syllabic Writing When a writing system employs a set of
symbols which represent thepronunciation of syllables, it is describedas syllabic writing.
There do not seem to be any purelysyllabic writing systems in use today, but
Japanese can be described as having an atleast partly syllabic writing system.
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Syllabic Writing
In the 19th century CherokeeIndians invented and used a syllabic
writing system to produce writtenfrom spoken language. The first fullydeveloped syllabic writing system wasused by the Phoenicians at around1000 B.C..
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Alphabetic Writing
An alphabet is essentially a set ofwritten symbols which each
represent a single type of sound.This is what seems to have occurredin languages such as Arabic andHebrew.
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Alphabetic Writing
The early Greeks included symbolsfor vowels in their alphabet, and the
modern European alphabet can betraced from Egyptian to Phoenicianthen to Early Greek and finally to theRoman alphabet.
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