CAS XL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Logogram, Acrophony, Spoken Language
2 Feb 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Spoken language is always primary and writing is a technology. What is the difference in how spoken and written language are acquired: we are not born with either. But little kids acquire a language at early ages through spoken words. Japanese repeated some of the chinese characters but also developed two other writings: writing was invented several times in the world. Egyptians wrote on papyrus, it"s a reed growing in the nile region Egyptian"s papyrus roll: book with covers (codex) is a much later invention; egyptians, and later greeks and romans read books in scroll form. A symbol in egyptian may have one of the following functions: Phonogram ( letter): sign stands for consonant sound, Or determinative: reading aid like a sign to categorize (god, word, city etc). It can be compared to be using capitals in the english language. Nfr stands for beautiful (inverted mirror as the symbol)
