LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kyrgyz People, Phoneme, Acrophobia
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Writing systems are a reflection of language, arbitrariness: meaning is not an analog of form, conventions of visual representations of language. Alphabet: a system of phonographic symbols, each glyph (or letter) represents a phoneme. Letter: a glyph that represent a phoneme, m is a written symbol that represents the bilabial nasal consonant articulation and its acoustic signal; represents a sound (mm) Development of writing systems: phonographs from logographs, history: tracing writing as a technology; tracing glyphs and their value. Ancient logographic systems: earliest hieroglyphs and cuneiforms (3m bce, originally logographic systems, glyph = word, cuneiform: sumerian writing system, later hittite ad akkadian, hieroglyphics: ancient egyptian, later, glyph = word + homophones. Abjads: phoenician (1000 bce) (and proto-ca aa ite, earlier) Acrophobia: glyph = 1st sound of word. Ex: hieroglyph for net water" (wave symbol); phoenician logogram for mem water" (swiggle), then for [m] in phoenician, abjad; greek letter for [m] (capital m)- etruscan, roman, cyrillic, etc.
