LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Devanagari, Hiragana
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Writing systems: pictographic: pictures (drawing of tree) Alphabet: each glyph represents individual sounds; pity (consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel- 4) ck" = k sound so 1. Syllabary: each glyph represents single syllable, not a single sound: digraph: 2 glyphs together representing a symbol; ex: sh = [s] The language uses vowels but doesn"t write them: semitic languages (hebrew, arabic) Synthetic: usually the number of consonants > number of vowels. Diffusion of arabic script: throughout muslim middle east & africa: lebanon, palestine, syria, Jordan, iraq, s arabia, gulf states, morocco, libya, egypt: as alphabet: farsi, urdu (turkish) Abugida- writing system: another type of phonographic script. Vowel symbols are secondary (combined with consonants as ligature: devanagari: hindi, nepali, sindhi, marathi, thai, khmer, lao. Vowels added as diacritics (one part of glyph represent vowel, other part represents consonant, visually) Korean hangul: consonant & vowel glyphs are grouped, glyphs represent sound patterns rather than words, somewhat syllabic. Syllabary: each glyph represents a syllable, japanese.
