anthropology 340 language and culture writing systems
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Anthropology 340LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Writing Systems
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The Beginning of History
When: Writing began about 3,400 years ago.
Where: The earliest evidence for writing has been found in Mesopotamia, located in what is now Iraq.
Who: The SumeriansWhy: The earliest evidence for writing
appears to be for recording quantities and concepts, not for representing speech.
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Types of Writing
Non-Phonetic
• Pictographs
• Ideographs
• Logographs
Phonetic
1.Syllabic
2.Consonantal
3.Alphabetic
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Sumerian ScriptSumerian script began as a pictographic writing and then became more stylized as time went on and the Sumerians gave way to the Babylonian and Assyrian cultures.
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Pictographic Writing
Pictographic writing tells stories through pictures
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PictographsMinoan culture developed on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea south of Greece and south west of Turkey at about 2000 BC.
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Examples of Pictographs Used Today
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Easter Island WritingThe writing from Easter Island has not been decyphered. It appears to be at least partially pictographic but may be ideographic or logographic in nature.
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Ideograms1. Hittite Culture that ruled Anatolia (what is now Turkey) between 2000 and 1700 BC 2. Nigeria in the early 20th Century3. Indus Valley
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Modern Idiograms
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AnatolianHieroglyphics(Turkey) are Logograms
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Chinese Characters as Logograms
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Mixtec Logographic Script
• http://www.ancientscripts.com/mixtec.html
• Arabic Consonantal Alphabetic
• http://www.ancientscripts.com/arabic.html
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Chinese (Older Version)
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Modern Korean
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Maya Glyphs
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics are a mixture of alphabetic
and logographic
writing.
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The Transition from
Hieroglyphic to Phonological Script as the Phoenicians
borrowed and modified the Egyptians’
writing system
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Consonantal Writing
The Phoenicians developed a phonological writing system based on consonants only, depending on the reader to fill in the vowels. This characteristic was carried on in Hebrew until diacritic marks were added to consonants to fill in some of the vowel sounds.
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Syllabic Script from Cyprus
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Japanese Writing Systems
• Kanji = characters of Chinese origin (combine logographs and syllabary symbols) used for nouns and verb stems
• Hirigana = a syllabary used for verb ending and grammatical participles (on, to)
• Katakana = used for non-Japanese words or loan words
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AlphabeticWriting is a
phonological writing
system that has a
different symbol for each vowel
and consonant
sound.
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Runic Carving with Writing
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Study Guide
Writing Syllabic writingMesopotamia Consonantal writingSumeria Alphabetic writingPictographs Kanji writingIdeographs HiraganaHieroglyphics KatakanaGlyphs RunesLogographs