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Writing system

A writing system is any conventional system for representing a particular language using a set of symbols (called a script), as well as the rules those symbols encode. The earliest of conventional writing systems appeared during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each independently invented writing system gradually emerged from a system of…

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related to Featural systems · 16
Writing system → As Hangul, Daniels, Elven, Geoffrey Sampson, Hangul, It, John DeFrancis, Korean, Latin, Many, Originally, Other, Sampson's, Tengwar, The, Tolkien
related to history · 16
Writing system → AD, BC, Central, China, Examples, In, Inca Empire, Jiahu, Neolithic, Proto-writing, Quipu, South America, Southeast Europe, The Jiahu, The Vinča, Vinča
related to background · 14
Writing system → According, Aristotle, As, BC, Chinese, For, Hindustani, Latin-based Vietnamese, Sinosphere, The, This, Vietnamese, When, While
related to Classification by basic linguistic unit · 10
Writing system → Alphabets, At, David Diringer, Depending, Greek, Many, Recent, Some, Syllabaries, Writing
related to Linearity · 10
Writing system → All, Braille, In, In Braille, Latin, Louis Braille, Moreover, On, Phoenician, The
related to Logographic systems · 8
Writing system → As, Chinese, If, Japanese, Korean, Logograms, Sinosphere, Vietnamese
related to General terminology · 7
Writing system → All, For, Graphemes, Likewise, The, These, While
related to Syllabaries · 7
Writing system → By, English, For, Japanese, Some, Syllabaries, Yi
related to Directionality and orientation · 6
Writing system → Arabic, In, LTR, Right-to-left, RTL, Writing
related to Orthographic regularity and depth · 6
Writing system → English, Orthographies, Scholars, Specifically, While, Writing

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writing language systems symbols alphabet used graphemes use letters alphabets represent spoken system written script bc generally words syllabaries called

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