The basic history of writing.
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The basic history of writing.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The basic history of writing. Hudson, Grover. 2000. Essential Introductory Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, chapter 21.
5. CONSONANTAL WRITING.
7. ENGLISH WRITING (1/2).
1. PREWRITING: PICTURES.
3. PHONETIC EXTENSIONS OF LOGOGRAMS.
7. ENGLISH WRITING (2/2).
- Pictures on stones.
- Pictures are not writing.
- Sound changes.
- Borrowed words.
- Smileys.
- Semitic languages: adapted from Egyptian.
- Consonants: lexical meaning.
- Vowels: grammatical meaning.
- Arabic writing.
- Rebus writing.
- The acrophonic principle.
- Chinese extended logograms.
- Egyptian writing.
- Spread of Latin.
- Modifications of the Greek-Latin alphabet.
- English divergence from alphabetic writing.
- Lack of standardization.
- Writing: needed!
Syllabic writing.
Logographic writing
Alphabetic writing
English writing
Consonantal writing.
Phonetic extensions of logograms.
Prewriting: Pictures.
6. ALPHABETIC WRITING.
4. SYLLABIC WRITING.
2. LOGOGRAPHIC WRITING. (1/3)
- Greek Linear B. - Japanese kana.
- Languages used for 40.000 years. (Or more!).
- 1st writing: Sumerian.
- Sumerian: logographic, logogram.
- Greeks adapt the writing system of Semitics.
- Result: alphabetic writing.
- 1st written right to left, later left to right.
- Pictograms.
- Ideograms.
- Other writings: Egyptian, Chinese, Mayan.
2. LOGOGRAPHIC WRITING. (2/3)
2. LOGOGRAPHIC WRITING.(3/3)
- Monogenesis of writing.
- Chinese logographic writing.
- Logograms used in Enlgish writing.
- Token inventory representation.
- Sumerian cuneiform writing.