JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Proto-Sinaitic Script, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Semitic Languages
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Series of vertical lines all look the same, but started adding: tiddles to top of i , abreva to the u (abreva is happy smile) Start with nice latin lower case letters that look the same, then over the years, got more stuff to distinguish the letters. Will ask questions from this lecture (abjad) but won"t give transliteration questions. Arabic memorize 4 different forms per letter. Semici scripts bridge between hierographic logographic scripts and what are seen in the world today. Semitic scripts still in use all over the plac e. On the left, ladino language in spain; right is in eastern indonesia. These scripts used in wide variety of areas and. The move away from logography although there were additional phonographs added, the mixed script. Semitic scripts moved completely from logographic symbols altogether . Had 2 very old civilziations on each side egyptians hieroglyphics and mesopoteamia with cuneiform both were relatively conservative writing systems.