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We visit the three known origins of writing in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica to show how writing arose.. in what forms, and how it spread. We also provide an overview of how writing systems have been studied in modern times, and we propose some ideas about what the future might hold for writing and writing systems.
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- Introduction
- 3. Logography: Shift from Visual to Aural
- 6. Writing: Handling Data in Abstraction
- Glossary
The three writing systems that developed independently in the Near East, China and Mesoamerica, shared a remarkable stability. Each preserved over millennia features characteristic of their original prototypes. The Mesopotamian cuneiform script can be traced furthest back into prehistory to an eighth millennium BC counting system using clay tokens ...
About 3000 BC, the creation of phonetic signs—signs representing the sounds of speech—marks the second phase in the evolution of Mesopotamian writing, when, finally, the medium parted from its token antecedent in order to emulate spoken language. As a result, writing shifted from a conceptual framework of real goods to the world of speech sounds. I...
Beyond the formal and structural changes undergone by writing in the course of millennia, its evolution also involved strides in the ability to handle data in abstraction. At the first stage, the token system antecedent of writing, already abstracted information in several ways. First, it translated daily-life commodities into arbitrary, often geom...
Abstraction: Consider the property of an item dissociated from any specific instance. Abstract counting: When numbers are considered separately from the items counted. Alphabet: A writing system based on a set of letters, each standing for a single spoken sound. Concrete counting: the use of different sets of numbers to count different set of i...
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Starting with Neef (2015), a multimodular model of writing systems has been proposed that includes language systems and graphematics as necessary modules, with orthography as an optional module. Aspects related to the material substance, embodied by scripts, are mostly neglected.
- J. Marshall Unger
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It will briefly refer to the now discredited monogenesis hypothesis, review some of the reasons why writing systems became obsolete in the past, and discuss the diversity of writing systems in the world today with a view to what it might be good for and how it relates to the diversity of languages.
Jan 7, 2022 · Starting with a unified framework that allows the description of all types of writing systems with comparative concepts (such as grapheme) and moving towards the incorporation of evidence...
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HISTORY OF WRITING SYSTEM - Free download as Word Doc (.doc / .docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The history of writing began around 3100 BC in Sumer, where early systems developed from proto-writing symbols into true writing systems that could encode language.
