Scribd
Upload
11 views20 pages

Writing

Uploaded by

Kuldeep Singh
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
11 views20 pages

Writing

Uploaded by

Kuldeep Singh
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 20

Writing Systems

• 1. Types of Writing Systems


– Logographic (Morphographic)
– Syllabic
– Alphabetic
• 2. Origin of Writing
• 3. Development
• 4. Spread
1. Types of Writing System
• Logographic
• 1 symbol = 1 word or morpheme

• Mandarin Chinese
• 我們 喜歡 學 語言學
• Wo.men xihuan xue yuyanxue.
• I.Pl enjoy study linguistics
• “We enjoy studying linguistics.”
• Syllabic
• 1 symbol = 1 syllable

• Japanese
• べたべた (hiragana)
• be ta be ta ‘sticky’

• ア メ リ カ (katakana)
• a me ri ka ‘America/US’
• Alphabetic
• 1 symbol = 1 phoneme

• Korean
• ㅎ ㅏ ㄴ ㄱ ㅡ ㄹ
• h a n k ɯ l

• 한 글
• han kɯl
• ‘Korean’ ‘writing’
2. Origin of Writing
• pictorial sign (picture of plow)

• object (plow)
• pictorial sign

• object name of object


• ‘plow’, ‘to plow’, ‘plowman’
• pictorial sign

• name of object
• apin ‘plow’
Origin of Sumerian Cuneiform
Early Chinese Characters
3. Development: Rebus Principle
Rebus Principle and Chinese
Characters
• 勿 wu ‘animal’
• 勿 wu Negative imperative

• 非 禮 勿 視
• Fei li wu shi.
• be.not Li do.not look
• ‘If it does not adhere to Li do not look at it!’
• Graphic ambiguity:
• 勿 wu ‘animal’
• 勿 wu Negative imperative

• => Create new character


• 牛 ‘ ox’ > Semantic classifier
• 牛 + 勿 > 物 wu ‘animal’
• 牛 + 岡 > 犅 gang ‘cow’
• 牛 + 生 > 牲 sheng ‘domestic animal’
• 牛 + 羲 > 犧 xi ‘sacrificial
animal’
4. Spread of Writing
Cuneiform Borrowed as Syllabary:
Old Persian
Japanese Syllabaries from Chinese
Characters
• Chinese Hiragana
• 安 あ a
• 加 か ka
• 世 せ se
• 天 て te
• 乃 の no
• 不 ふ fu
• 呂 ろ ro
Manyoshu: Chinese characters
used for sound and meaning value
• 世間乎 何物爾
• Yononaka=wo nani=ni
• world=Acc what=Dat
• 将譬
• tatohe-mu?
• compare-should
• “To what should I compare this world?”
• Content words used for meaning value:
• 世間 ‘ world’ > yononaka
• 何物 ‘ what’ > nani
• 将譬 ‘ should compare’ > tatohemu

• Function words used for sound value:


• 乎 > Accusative case wo
• 爾 > Dative case ni
Logograms to Alphabet: Phoenician
Phoenician to Greek:
Vowels Added

You might also like

pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy