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Writing Flashcards

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Pictogram

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Looks like something

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Ideogram

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More abstract, can hold several meanings

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Three types of writing systems

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logography, syllabary, alphabet

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Logography

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Each word or morpheme is represented by one written character called a logogram

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5
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Logographic system advantage

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Ability to communicate across dialects or even languages

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Logographic system disadvantage

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Need to memorize thousands of characters for basic literacy

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Syllabary

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Each syllable is represented by one character

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Syllabary advantage

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Requires far less characters than a logographic writing system

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Syllabary disadvantage

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Difficult to devise a language with complex syllable structures

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Alphabets

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Generally an alphabet represents each phoneme with one character

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Vowel-less alphabets

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individual consonants are represented by letters, but vowels are ignored

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Vowel-less alphabet examples

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Hebrew, Arabic

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English’s alphabetic writing often violates what writing principle

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One phoneme = one letter

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Chinese writing

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Earliest clear examples of Chinese writing are from the Oracle Bone Scripts from approximately 1200 BCE

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How is modern Chinese writing different from the original Chinese writing?

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Original Chinese writing had a clear pictographic origin, whereas modern Chinese characters are more abstract

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Cuneiform

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Earliest known writing system that originated in Mesopotamia. Means wedge shaped. Used from 3200BCE to 100CE

17
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Mayan

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Contains logographic and syllabic characters, used from 300BCE to 1600CE

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Cherokee syllabary

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Not entirely derived from the Latin alphabet but definitely was inspired by it

19
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Quipus

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“talking knots” used by Incans and other Andean cultures to record data, 3rd Millennium BCE to 17th century CE

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Phaistos Disc

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2nd Millennium, Minoan language, related to Cretan Hieroglyphs (?)

PSY 2010 (17 decks)

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