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• WRITING — (Scripts, Materials, and Inscriptions). SCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see alphabet ). Here, the pictographic, cuneiform, and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• hieroglyphic writing — Introduction       a system that employs characters in the form of pictures. These individual signs, called hieroglyphs (hieroglyph), may be read either as pictures, as symbols for pictures, or as symbols for sounds.       The name hieroglyphic… …   Universalium

• Non-monumental uses of Ogham — As well as its use for monumental inscriptions, the Old Irish ogham alphabet was used for short messages on wood or metal, either to relay messages, or to denote ownership of the object inscribed. Some of these messages seem to have been cryptic… …   Wikipedia

• Mesoamerican writing systems — Mesoamerica, like India, Mesopotamia, China, and Egypt, is one of the few places in the world where writing has developed independently. Mesoamerican scripts deciphered to date are logosyllabic, combining the use of logograms with a syllabary,… …   Wikipedia

• Mixtec writing — An example of the pictorial representations the Mixtecs used for non verbal communication through writing. Here, in this picture, which is a reproduction of a work from the Codex Zouche Nuttall, a village is being sacked by some warriors. Mixtec… …   Wikipedia

• alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… …   Universalium

• ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• semantics — semanticist /si man teuh sist/, semantician /see man tish euhn/, n. /si man tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. Ling. a. the study of meaning. b. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form. 2.… …   Universalium

• cuneiform — /kyooh nee euh fawrm , kyooh nee euh /, adj. 1. having the form of a wedge; wedge shaped. 2. composed of slim triangular or wedge shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and… …   Universalium

• Constantine Paparrigopoulos — Constantine Paparregopoulus. Constantine Paparrigopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Παπαρρηγόπουλος) (1815 1891) is considered the founder of modern Greek historiography. He analysed Greek history from ancient to the present as a continuous history in his… …   Wikipedia

• Kök Turki alphabet — ▪ writing system       writing system used by Turkic speaking peoples in Central Asia from the 6th to the 8th century AD. It is sometimes called Kök Turki runes because of the resemblance of its letter forms to those of the (Germanic) runic… …   Universalium