Writing system

The writing system that I chose to write about for this assignment is Cherokee, which is the most southern branch of the Iroquoian language family (Warren, n.d.). Though, we do not know exactly when Cherokee developed, linguistics believe it was sometime between 1804-1821. Prior to this Cherokee was a spoken language only, However, in 1821 is when the Cherokee system was first shown to the leaders of the Cherokee nation and was acknowledged as a useful Cherokee script (Cushman, 2012). It did not

Mayan culture and civilization are said to be far beyond their time by their complex writing and numerical system. In the pre-Columbian America, the Mayan writing system is said to be the “only” true writing system within the Americas. By examining the environment the Maya had lived, we are able to look at the how the Maya used their writing system and it also further reflects the Maya’s surroundings. The Mayan civilization had flourished throughout the Yucatan peninsula in Central America. They

the more advanced hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, and eventually developed into today’s sophisticated forms of writing. The establishment of a writing system had an enormous influence on the course of history. For example, writing helped establish various religions, seeing as beliefs were recorded down in religious texts and propagated throughout the land. Laws were established in writing as well. And great advancements in science and mathematics wouldn’t have been feasible without the ability for

cracks in order to answer a question. This reading often involved the priest carving the “answers” into the bone under the guise of creating clarity (Lyons, 18). However fraudulent their practices were, these priests had a huge influence on Chinese writing. The questions the priest’s client had would be written from top to bottom on the bone, and this is still the traditional direction of Chinese script. In

the Mongolian script having connections with pre-revolutionary values and old Buddhist religion, it was also dubbed obsolete by the Revolutionary Party because of its seemingly complicated writing system with seemingly unnecessary words, grammar and graphemes (Krueger, 1961:184). The Mongolian writing system was also the object of simplification because as it is a Semitic alphabet in origin, the letters in the alphabet had the duty of changing form, whether the grapheme had an initial, medial, or

Agriculture got its start in Egypt by the Nile River with wheat and barley. Irrigation systems were used which increased the region’s population. Egypt also had flooding though it was much more predictable than the flooding in Mesopotamia. Agriculture conditions were much better in Egypt. Both regions had deities to control the flood waters

The Manchu writing system was developed before the Manchu conquest of China, originating from a different language than its spoken form. Due to the close network of alliances with the Mongols in preparation for the conquest of China, the leader of the Manchus, Nurhachi, favored the Mongol writing system with a modified version of the old Uighur script that they were already using. The script was used as the national writing system for Manchu in communication with the Mongols, because it is the most

pictures and symbols have been used to convey messages and capsulize the history and culture of the society. Terms like hieroglyphics and emojis refer to systems of writing in which pictures and symbols represent ideas and sounds. This paper will examine four writing systems of ancient and modern societies that utilize pictures. Each of the writing systems used pictures along with letters. In some societies, pictorial uses were reserved for the society’s elite, but recently, the use of pictures as primary

There is no doubt, that writing is one of the greatest innovations of all time. I would also argue that writing was essential for the creation of organized societies. Although languages have existed long before this great invention, writing offered a superior view in transferring even the most complex information of ideas, beliefs, and concepts from one person to another and to larger groups. The Bronze – Age is where writing first emerged. Pictograms, cuneiform tablets and hieroglyphs are just

Phoenicians, the original ancient mariners, are responsible for transforming cuneiform into a more efficient writing system by paring down the somewhat ungainly number of 5,000 cuneiform characters into 29 characters. Adopted around 1000 B.C.E., the Phoenician alphabet was not a collection of pictographs like many early forms of writing, but instead a close relative of many modern writing systems.11 The sophisticated navy and extensive trade network of Phoenicia ensured that this new version of cuneiform