The History Of Writing
Stone age writing to Present day writing
Evidence and types
4100-3800- symbols inscribed on clay to represent cattle/land/grain
Crystallization of the Sumerian culture- Uruk in Mesopotamia
Pictographs- representing a certain graph or meaning
Pictographs-Cuneiform
Picture writing had developed in Egypt near the end of the 4th millennium
Early Europeans used to write on Clay tablets as early as 1500 BC
People wrote with....
Tablets were made from clay and allowed to dry in the sun. They were brittle and easily destroyed
Logogram- written character which represents a word .. Used to write Chinese characters and Mayan
Syllabary- set of written symbols that represent syllables
Alphabet- set of symbols which represent a phoneme of the language
Stone tablets, clay tablets, bamboo slats, wax tables, vellu, parchment, paper
Mesopotamia The Development of Written Language