LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aphasia, Syllabary, Rotokas Language
28 Sep 2016
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Combination of a bunch of symbols and signs. Not universal: few hundred languages written vs. a few thousand spoken. United nations: 78 languages, of which 5 or 6 have international importance. Everything gets written in french and belgium and then gets translated into english later. Bible is the most translated book in history. 2000 languages with at least one book of the bible. Fairly recent: cave drawings dating from 29,000 to 10,000 years ago (i. e. appearance of. Legends: religious origins of writing: islam: believe brought to humans by allah, aztecs: believe given by quetzalcoatl. There is no common origin: systems developed independently. In china: earliest known systems: (jiahu: pictograms in 6600 bc: symbols written on tortoise shells. Mesopotamia: (modern iraq) from 3500 bc used wedge shaped (cuneiform) read stylus to engrave characters in clay tablets: first top to bottom, then left to right. In egypt: hieroglyphs: about 500 sacred carvings founds in tombs and temples from.
