earliest writing was invented during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each writing system invented without prior knowledge of writing gradually...
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The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists...
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rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according...
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undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist. The term "writing systems" is used...
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In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they...
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Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language. A writing system uses a set of symbols and rules to encode aspects of spoken...
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A constructed writing system or a neography is a writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of...
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of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures...
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The writing systems of Africa refer to the current and historical practice of writing systems on the African continent, both indigenous and those introduced...
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A numeral system is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or...
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Alphabet (redirect from Alphabetic writing system)
can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken...
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Various Mongolian writing systems have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts. The oldest and native...
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where writing is thought to have developed independently. Mesoamerican scripts deciphered to date are a combination of logographic and syllabic systems. They...
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considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system used to represent all dialects. Ojibwe dialects have been written in...
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Egyptian hieroglyphs (redirect from Egyptian hieroglyphic writing)
hieroglyphs (/ˈhaɪroʊˌɡlɪfs/ HY-roh-glifs) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined ideographic...
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Akuru" was used historically by Maldivians to distinguish their own writing system from foreign scripts. Foreign scripts were learned and introduced at...
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Southeast Asia uses various non-Latin-based writing systems. The writing systems below are listed by language family. Khmer script (for Khmer language)...
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Maya script (redirect from Maya writing system)
is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially...
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Massachusett writing systems describes the historic and modern systems used for writing Massachusett, an indigenous Algonquian language of the Algic language...
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Vietnamese language (redirect from Vietnamese writing system)
Vietnamese and as blời in Middle Vietnamese. The writing system used for Vietnamese is based closely on the system developed by Alexandre de Rhodes for his 1651...
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Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information. Such systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early...
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Shorthand (redirect from Shorthand writing)
on whether compression or speed of writing is the goal. Many forms of shorthand exist. A typical shorthand system provides symbols or abbreviations for...
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Ideogram (redirect from Ideographic writing systems)
may form part of a writing system otherwise based on other principles, like the examples above in the phonetic English writing system—while also potentially...
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Syllabary (redirect from Syllabic writing system)
end of syllables), are also found in syllabaries.[citation needed] A writing system using a syllabary is complete when it covers all syllables in the corresponding...
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as a traditional writing system, asemic writing seeks to make the reader hover in a state between reading and looking. Asemic writing has no verbal sense...
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Written Chinese (redirect from Chinese writing system)
Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly...
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Swedish alphabet (redirect from Swedish writing system)
alphabet (Swedish: Svenska alfabetet) is a basic element of the Latin writing system used for the Swedish language. The 29 letters of this alphabet are the...
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Logogram (redirect from Logosyllabic writing)
innovation in enabling the writing system to adequately encode human language. Logographic systems include the earliest writing systems; the first historical...
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Moon type (redirect from Moon (writing system))
The Moon System of Embossed Reading (commonly known as the Moon writing, Moon alphabet, Moon script, Moon type, or Moon code) is a writing system for the...
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Korean language (redirect from Korean writing system)
century King Sejong the Great personally developed an alphabetic featural writing system known today as Hangul. He felt that Hanja was inadequate to write Korean...
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