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marked the turning point when writing started emulating spoken language and, as a result, became applicable to all fields of human experience (3000–1500 BC); (d) with two dozen letters, each standing for a single sound of voice, the alphabet perfected the rendition of speech. After
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The function of writing when it came about in 3200 BCE was exclUSively economic. Whereas art dealt with the numinous, each sign of writing stood for a precise unit of a specific com modity-the things of mundane life. After ]0,000 BCE, art became an integral part of every culture, whereas writing remained the asset of few civilizations.
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By the 29th century BCE, writing used a wedge-shaped stylus and included phonetic elements representing syllables of the Sumerian language, and gradually replaced round-stylus and sharp-stylus markings during the 27th and 26th centuries BCE. [35] Finally, cuneiform became a general-purpose writing system with logograms, syllables, and numerals.
language spoken in the province of Mindoro, Philippines, lines are written ver-tically moving away from the writer, bottom-to-top, but read horizontally from left to right. Initial writing (or rather, prewriting) was a visuoconstructive ability (i.e., repre-senting external elements visually), and only later did it become an ideomotor
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The Origins and the Evolution of Language . Salikoko S. Mufwene. University of Chicago . Collegium de Lyon (2010-2011) 1. Introduction Although language evolutionis perhaps more commonly used in linguistics than evolution of language, I stick in this essay to the latter term, which focuses more specifically on the phylogenetic emergence of ...
of sounds. It followed that writing, at least Greek writing, was a secondary sign system serving the sole purpose of substituting for or representing the primary sign system, vocal speech. When writing was invented, such a linear representa-tional relationship between speech and writing did not exist, but that was none of Aristotle’s concern.
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Explore the timline of Writing. Definition. Writing is the physical manifestation of a spoken language. It is thought that human beings developed language c. 35,000 BCE as evidenced by cave paintings from the period of the Cro-Magnon Man (c. 50,000-30,000 BCE) which appear to express concepts concerning daily life.
