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Writing

Writing is the act of creating a persistent, usually visual representation of language on a surface. As a structured system of communication, writing is also known as written language. Historically, written languages have emerged as a way to record corresponding spoken languages. A particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which…

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History and origins

Early Bronze AgeMesopotamiaAncient EgyptAncient ChinaMesoamerica
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Tools, materials, and motivations to write

Writing implementsFingersStylusesInk brushesPencils
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Classification of writing systems

AlphabetSyllabariesPhonemesSyllablesLogographies
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Influence on society

PlatoSocratesPhaedrusCode of HammurabiSocial mobility
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Tools, materials, and motivations to write

Contemporary uses

Relationship with spoken and signed language

Classification of writing systems

History and origins

Influence on society

Orthography

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Writing

Nodes256
Edges255
Triples231
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007813
Components1

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Writing

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related to Development of the alphabet · 30
Writing → Arabic, Aramaic, Around, BC, Bulgarian, Canaanite, Cyrillic, Egypt, Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, It, Khadem, Latin, Levant, Other, Phoenician, Precise, Proto-Sinaitic, Russian
related to Egypt · 23
Writing → Abydos, AD, Around, At, BC, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Greek, Indus, Middle, Narmer Palette, New Kingdom, Nile, Old, Predynastic, Qa'ab, Scorpion, Second Dynasty, Seth-Peribsen, The
related to Mesopotamia · 17
Writing → Around, BC, By, Cuneiform, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, In, Iran, Later, Latin, Mesopotamians, Round, Sumerian, The, They, This, To, Zagros
related to overview · 17
Writing → AD, An, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Aratta, BC, Early Bronze Age, Enmerkar, Lord, Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian, Neolithic, Scholars, Sumerian, The, Uruk
related to Influence on society · 12
Writing → BC, Code, For, Hammurabi, He, Mesopotamia, Phaedrus, Plato, Socrates, The, This, Written
related to Aegean systems · 10
Writing → Aegean Islands, BC, Cretan, Crete, Greek, Iron Age, Knossos, Linear, Mycenaean Greeks, Prior
related to Elamite scripts · 10
Writing → Akkadian, At, BC, Elamite, Iran, Susa, The, The Elamite, The Proto-Elamite, Tigris
related to External links · 10
Writing → Across, Alphabet, An Interview, Books, Christophe Rico Damqatum, Curriculum Clearinghouse, German Museum, Language, Networks, Signs
related to Orthography · 10
Writing → English, Finnish, For, French, In, Orthography, Serbo-Croatian, SignWriting, These, They
related to Motivations and purposes · 9
Writing → Aids, As Charles Bazerman, Further, Historically, Individual, Medicine, Once, The, The Canon

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language written bc also spoken used may alphabet script cuneiform systems languages symbols social literacy typically system clay words write

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Writingis aact of creating a persistent0.90text
generative pre-trained transformers caninstance ofsoftware0.80text
when provided with a promptinstance ofsoftware0.80text
generate longerinstance ofsoftware0.80text
plausibly register-appropriate texts without additional human input.Motivationsinstance ofsoftware0.80text
purposesHistoricallyinstance ofsoftware0.80text
writing emerged to address the needs of societies growing in economicinstance ofsoftware0.80text
social complexityinstance ofsoftware0.80text
emailinstance ofThe global spread of digital communication systems0.80text
social media has made writing an increasingly important feature of daily lifeinstance ofThe global spread of digital communication systems0.80text
where these systems mix with older technologies like paperinstance ofThe global spread of digital communication systems0.80text
pencilsinstance ofThe global spread of digital communication systems0.80text

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