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| | Writing system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Writing systems are conceptual systems, as are the languages to which they refer. | | | As languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. | | | In modern times, when linguists invent a writing system for a language that didn't previously have one, the goal is usually to make perfectly phonological alphabet. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system
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| | Japanese writing system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In some cases (such as the preceding one) the distinction is simple, whereas in some cases the distinction in nuance is difficult enough that an author will write the word in hiragana to avoid the possible error of choosing the wrong kanji. | | | Kanji (漢字) are used to write, for example, | | | Hiragana (平仮名) are used to write, for example, |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system
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| | MESOAMERICAN WRITING SYSTEMS |
| | Ceramic writing seems to indicate the name of the owner and sometimes the function or purpose of the object - which interestingly did not always correlate with the archaeologist’s pre-decipherment taxonomic classification of the objects function or purpose. | | | Maya writing uses a syllabary made up of glyphs rather than a pure alphabet and is a mixed system. | | | However, earlier writings found in Mixtec areas do not necessarily use or incorporate the Mixtec language, so additional research is needed. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/writing.html
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| | The Decipherment of the Olmec Writing System |
| | We summarize the decipherment of the Olmec writing. | | | Progress in deciphering the Olmec writing has depended largely on a knowledge of the Malinke-Bambara (Manding) languages and the Vai writing system (Delofosse, 1899). | | | The phonetic values of the Olmec signs are the phonetic values the Vai syllabary, which is analogous to the Olmec writing (Winters, 1979, 1997). |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8919/decip1.html
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| | Writing System Declaration |
| | The base components identify the set of characters used in the writing system, and further specify, for each character, the string(s) of bytes and entity names used to encode it in the text. | | | Normally, the language described is a natural language; in some cases, however, artificial languages, dialects, or other sublanguages may be usefully regarded as a language and documented in a writing system declaration. | | | A TEI document specifies the writing system declarations applicable to it by means of declarations in its header, and by means of its use of the global |
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http://nl.ijs.si/et/genia/doc/P4X/WD.html
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| | The German Writing System |
| | The latest attempt to change the writing system is directly related to the grammar and spelling reform proposed in 1992. | | | The second, The Classification of Writing Systems, divides the writing systems according to their nature, not their age. | | | The language itself seems to be involved in an ongoing process of change, thus the development of the written word continues. |
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http://f99.middlebury.edu/RU232A/STUDENTS/cbeyer/writingrev.html
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| | Ethiopic writing system. |
| | This is the systemic ambiguity of its representation: it can stand for either a consonant in isolation or a consonant with the short vowel /&;/. | | | Ethiopic is the writing system, whether it be applied to the writing of Amharic or any other language. | | | The Ethiopic system, on the other hand, can be analysed as thirty-three basic consonant forms with relatively systematic variations to indicate vowels and/or labialization. |
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http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j19/ethiopic.php
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| | Japanese Writing System |
| | Once the two forms of kana, hiragana and katatkana, were developed, the three writing systems were used independently of each all the way into the eighteen hundreds. | | | While kanji continued to be used in Japan, its complexity and difficulty in use lead to the development of two other writing forms. | | | Instead of adopting hiragana, another purely phonetic form of writing was developed. |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/fall97/mat-wite.htm
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| | Ethiopian Writing System - Baye Yimam |
| | In the syllabic system, it is possible only to point out to the phonemes but not the vowels and consonants that comprise it. | | | The old Chinese writing system is one example (5). | | | But that doesn’t mean that each and every nation/nationality has to use a different writing system to do so. |
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http://www.ethiopians.com/bayeyima.html
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| | writing systems reforms and revolutions |
| | A common strategy with computers is to type in hiragana or a similar simple symbol system, and the computer transforms it to the complex script including kanji. | | | The writing system was a clear hazard in modernization. | | | The conservatives lamented that it was contrary to faith and morals to abandon the Qur'an script, and that easy learning was bad for discipline, but the new writing system was popular because it was easy. |
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http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/wrintref.htm
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| | Chinese logographic writing system |
| | Logographic writing systems are direct contrasts to the alphabetic principle of English spelling in how they represent meaning (semantic features of language) and speech (phonological features). | | | The task of learning Chinese writing has been compared to someone trying to remember telephone numbers, although there is more system to it than that. | | | Over time, the significs or radical components have been reduced to around 189, and the phonogramic components of the characters have increased - almost parallel to the trend of development of Western writing systems. |
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http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writchin.htm
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| | Vietnamese Writing System |
| | The chu nom was a system developed by the Vietnamese themselves for the writing of their own language. | | | Despite the overwhelming prestige of Chinese writing, the Vietnamese managed along the way to develop a system to write their own language. | | | While helping achieve a regular and predictable spelling, diacritics are cumbersome to write and cause problems on computers and browsers. |
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http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writsys/writviet.html
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| | Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : W |
| | WebDAV is a component of implementing distributed file systems in the current Internet-involved fabric of computer information technology. | | | As of this writing, ISO10646 and Unicode encodings are not covered under Systems 6.x and 7.x. | | | WORM An acronym for Write Once Read Many (times), usually applied to certain types of storage media, such as CD-ROM, which can only be written once. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/profirst/w.htm
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| | NL23_3: Aromanian Writing System |
| | And this was true, whether writing with (i) the traditional means, typewriters or typesetting or (ii) the new emerging desk publishing techniques using personal computers and word processors. | | | I was entrusted with the task of writing such a book, first, and have it verified and corrected, later, by other linguists. | | | Compared to the traditional Aromanian alphabet, it was easy, because they could use it without difficulty, first with the typewriter and later, with the personal computer, where writing of diacritical signs is prohibitively difficult. |
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http://www.farsarotul.org/nl23_3.htm
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| | Writing System Links |
| | The Writing Systems of Vietnamese - more information on the development of the Vietnamese writing system. | | | Check out this piece about the sort of writing system that would result if English were written like Chinese. | | | The main article has many links (e.g., Cantonese Chinese) which are relevant to the Chinese writing system. |
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http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writsys/writlinks.html
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| | Chinese Language: History of Chinese Writing System |
| | The Chinese writing system is unique in many respects. | | | This version of Chinese calligraphy was the predecessor for the more streamlined version of modern writing. | | | In an effort to circumvent this problem, the People’s Republic of China introduced a program to simplify the language into a set of commonly used characters. |
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http://www.char4u.com/article_info.php?articles_id=2
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| | Japanese Writing Systems |
| | The written form of Japanese is a gloriously (horribly) complex and multilayered system (mess) loaded with ambiguity and uncertainty. | | | If the Japanese wished to join the rest of the world system, to ease their use of typewriters (do they still exist?) and computers, they COULD (it might seem) use the Roman alphabet. | | | Some Japanese might prefer one of these solutions to the incredible complexity of their system. |
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http://www.d.umn.edu/~jbelote/japanwriting.html
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| | Logitech Products > Logitech® io™ Digital Writing |
| | The Logitech io2 Digital Writing System is the fastest and most effective mobile solution for turning handwritten information into digital documents. | | | Digital Writing System is the fastest and most effective mobile solution for turning handwritten information into digital documents. | | | No matter how you use the system, the digital pen, smart paper, and software are three components at the core of any solution. |
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http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/features/digitalwriting&crid=1545&countryid=19&languageid=1
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| | KryssTal : Writing |
| | An excellent and informative site about ancient writing systems of the world with examples, charts and many links. | | | The history, development and evolution of the world's writing systems | | | Visit Amazon by clicking on a logo below. |
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http://www.krysstal.com/writing.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Writing Systems |
| | Writing provides a way of extending human memory by imprinting information into media less fickle than the human brain. | | | Types: Classification according to how the system works. | | | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems defines a writing system as "a set of visible or tactile signs used to represent units of language in a systematic way". |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws.html
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| | Elkarîl Writing |
| | One is simply to write out the words, using the above symbols for the digits. | | | The graphic at left, representing the word Elkarîl, may be taken as an example. | | | As a demonstration of how the system works, here are a few sample CVC words. |
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http://www.zompist.com/elkwrite.htm
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| | Chinese: The Chinese Writing System |
| | Exploring writing approaches in Chinese EFL class.(English as a foreign language) | | | Reading and writing Chinese; simplified character edition; a comprehensive guide to the Chinese writing system, 3rd ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review) | | | The Chinese writing system developed more than 4,000 years ago; the oldest extant examples of written Chinese are from the 14th or 15th cent. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0857298.html
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| | Japanese Writing |
| | With that in mind, I've constructed a series of animated GIF files that will lead you through how to write each character. | | | These two basic writing systems share most rules, but lengthening vowel sounds and making consonant sounds harder are done differently in the two sets. | | | Hiragana is the first writing system taught to Japanese children, so low-level children's books are written exclusively in hiragana, and even in more advanced level texts, difficult kanji will have the pronunciation written above in hiragana. |
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http://members.aol.com/writejapan
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| | Greek Writing System |
| | Glagolitic, an earlier Slavic writing system, was also apparently based on Greek. | | | At various times, the Greek script was used on an ad hoc basis to write isolated words or phrases from other languages. | | | The South Slav languages now use variants of the Cyrillic alphabet. |
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http://www.writingsystems.net/systems/greek/languages.htm
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| | Language Log: Writing System Reform |
| | Those who learn to read in a revised system would have difficulty reading everything published prior to the reform. | | | Some of the relevant factors are: People want those who come after them to suffer the same way they did. | | | People sometimes wonder why we couldn't reform the awful English spelling system. |
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http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001009.html
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| | <iAKSES</iPhonemic Writing System for Universal Literacy. |
| | Finally, if you are NONE OF THE ABOVE, your help is especially important. | | | If you teach or train teachers, children need you to promote education based upon a transparent (phonemic) writing system. | | | Only one symbol is used to write each word element rather than the more than 251 spellings commonly used in traditional orthography. |
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http://www.akses.org
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| | The Tigrinya Writing System |
| | The Tigrinya writing system is one variant of what is often referred to as the "Ethiopic" writing system or "Ethiopic syllabary". | | | It is a slight variant of the writing system used for Amharic and for Ge'ez [gɨʔɨz], the classical language still in use as the liturgical language of Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christians. | | | The most salient graphical units in this writing system represent a consonant followed by a vowel. |
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling202/WritingSystem.html
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| | Mr. Dowling's Writing page |
| | Eventually, most cultures developed phonetic writing systems where a symbol represents a sound rather than an object. | | | This system worked well in a simple society, but it would be difficult to describe abstract concepts such as justice or liberty in pictographs. | | | Many Chinese people continue to use a pictographic system today, but the government has endorsed the Pinyin system of phonetic writing. |
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http://www.mrdowling.com/603-writing.html
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| | Outline of the Japanese Writing System |
| | Although all the principal writing systems of the world began with pictures, these were in almost all cases simplified to abstract symbols that were eventually used for their sound values, giving rise to the major alphabet systems of the world. | | | The Japanese writing system consists of three scripts, each of which has a different function. | | | The characters were used to write words of Chinese origin, or to write native Japanese words with Chinese characters representing the same or similar meanings. |
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http://www.kanji.org/kanji/japanese/writing/outline.htm
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| | LG645 English Writing System |
| | Writing systems in different languages (dual processes, characters/ letters, etc) | | | Coulmas, F. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Writing Systems, Blackwell | | | The historical evolution of the English writing system |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/LG645
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| | Chinese script and language |
| | The Chinese writing system an open-ended one, meaning that there is no upper limit to the number of characters. | | | There are no spaces between characters and the characters which make up multi-syllable words are not grouped together, so when reading Chinese, you not only have to work out what the characters mean and how to pronounce them, but also which characters belong together. | | | Characters can be used on their own, in combination with other characters or as part of other characters. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The English Writing System (The English Language Series): Books |
| | Buy The English Writing System (The English Language Series) with Second Language Learning and Language Teaching today! | | | Amazon.co.uk: The English Writing System (The English Language Series): Books | | | This title describes how writing is not simply ancillary to other aspects of language but vitally important to almost everything we do, from signing our wills to sending a text message. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340808640
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| | Mesopotamia Glossary: Cuneiform |
| | However, in addition to syllable symbols, some cuneiform symbols are ideograms ("picture words") representing an entire word; these ideograms might also, in other contexts, be simply syllables. | | | &, the original writing was pictographic ("picture writing"); individual words were represented by crude pictorial symbols that resembled in some way the object being represented, as in the Sumerian word for king, lu-gal : | | | The original Mesopotamian writings were crude pictures of the objects being named, but the difficulty of drawing on fresh clay eventually produced the wedges and hooks unique to cuneiform. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/CUNEI.HTM
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| | Target : Logitech io2 Digital Writing System - 965118-0403 |
| | Target : Logitech io2 Digital Writing System - 965118-0403 | | | Write an online review and share your thoughts with other guests. | | | The Bullseye Design and Bullseye Dog are trademarks of Target Brands, Inc. |
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http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/?asin=B00064FXH0
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| | African Writing Systems |
| | By definition, they are philosophical because they assist in synthesizing ideas, thoughts, and deeds through the use of signs, symbols or other pictorial renderings. | | | Specifically, writing is a means by which people record, objectify, and organize their activities and thoughts through images and graphs. | | | This means that writing facilitates the proper recording and transmissions of events and deeds from one generation to another. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
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| | Writing System Website by Vivian Cook |
| | Writing Systems is a web-site that provides information, amusement and advice about writing systems in general and English spelling and the English writing system in particular. | | | Book: Vivian Cook (2004), The English Writing System, Arnold | | | Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti (eds.) (2005), Second Language Writing Systems, Multilingual Matters |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c
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| | SignWriting: Write Sign Languages |
| | The system includes five sections: DanceWriting, SignWriting, MimeWriting, SportsWriting and ScienceWriting. | | | "Sutton Movement Writing and Shorthand" is a way to read and write all body movement. | | | are designed and produced by webmaster Valerie Sutton, the inventor of Sutton Movement Writing and Shorthand. |
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http://www.signwriting.org
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| | Lao Writing System |
| | The Lao Writing System by Arthur G. Crisfield and Arthur S. Recchi | | | IPA Fonts, then install them in your Windows/Fonts directory. |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/LaoLanguage/LaoWritingSystem/LaoWritingSystemFP.htm
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