| 单词 | writing system |
| 例句 | Did writing systems spread by being copied, or did existing systems merely inspire neighboring peoples to invent their own systems? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We know that Sequoyah received paper and other writing materials, the idea of a writing system, the idea of using separate marks, and the forms of several dozen marks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, there is no evidence that the earliest Chinese scribes could have had knowledge of any other writing system to inspire them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In effect, Europe received its crops, livestock, technology, and writing systems from the Fertile Crescent, which then gradually eliminated itself as a major center of power and innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The intended restricted uses of early writing provided a positive disincentive for devising less ambiguous writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China has had only a single writing system from the beginnings of literacy, a single dominant language for a long time, and substantial cultural unity for two thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Alphabets of ultimately eastern Mediterranean origin spread throughout all complex societies of Eurasia, from England to Indonesia, except for areas of East Asia where derivatives of the Chinese writing system took hold. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had to decide that a writing system should ignore all of that variation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ve intentionally termed these three approaches strategies rather than writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Let’s now examine how blueprint copying and idea diffusion contributed to the spread of writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No actual writing system employs one strategy exclusively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, Japan continues to use its horrendously cumbersome kanji writing system in preference to efficient alphabets or Japan’s own efficient kana syllabary—because the prestige attached to kanji is so great. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All other societies that have become literate did so by the diffusion of writing systems or of the idea of writing from one of those few primary centers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, professional linguists design writing systems for unwritten languages by the method of blueprint copying. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Convenient starting points for our discussion are the limited capabilities, uses, and users of early writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inventing a writing system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From the beginnings of literacy in China, it has had only a single writing system, whereas modern Europe uses dozens of modified alphabets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This explanation was suggested by the undoubted fact that the earliest known empires and writing systems arose in the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys of the Fertile Crescent and in the Nile Valley of Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Personal uses of writing by nonprofessionals came only much later, as writing systems grew simpler and more expressive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few functions and a few scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sequoyah’s example can serve as a model for how idea diffusion probably led to many writing systems of ancient times as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite its independent origins and distinctive sign forms, Maya writing is organized on principles basically similar to those of Sumerian writing and other western Eurasian writing systems that Sumerian inspired. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The three basic strategies underlying writing systems differ in the size of the speech unit denoted by one written sign: either a single basic sound, a whole syllable, or a whole word. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the New World’s sole writing systems, those of Mesoamerica, never spread to the complex Andean and eastern U.S. societies that might have adopted them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like all alphabetic writing systems, English uses many logograms, such as numerals, $, %, and + : that is, arbitrary signs, not made up of phonetic elements, representing whole words. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Given a writing system that works well for one language, how do you devise a system for a different language? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nigerian-born Victor Ekpuk draws and paints on paper, but his imagery employs symbols from an African writing system once incised into wood, metal and ceramics. In the galleries: Tales that unfold from the folding of paper 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But “Hangeul, the Aesthetics of the Lines” takes its inspiration from an older and purely Korean source: the phonetic writing system introduced in the 15th century. Review | In the galleries: Drawing as meditation 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The first writing system, cuneiform, arose in Sumer around 3200 BC to keep track of wheat, transactions, real estate and recipes. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Culturally, the Maya invented a hieroglyphic writing system, still not fully deciphered. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z These are as different from each other as the big Romance languages are, but the writing system unifies the Chinese world. One country, two systems 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z So Shubham did, and with a few Internet searches he learned about Braille, the raised-dot writing system used by the blind, and Braille printers, which, to the 12-year-old’s shock, cost thousands of dollars. California teenager earns funding for his low-cost Braille printer for blind people And in many cases, the writing systems were shown using the exact same piece of text, which was Article 1 of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | Holbrook: Carvings as Memorials to Alphabets in Peril 2011-08-14T03:10:04Z The words get spelled out in a Japanese writing system used for foreign words, called katakana, so academics call this step “katakanization.” The Surprising History Behind the Word 'Pokémon' 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z He demonstrated his ability to accurately transcribe a barely-legible original manuscript of Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” by disporting his skills in paleography, the study of ancient and antiquated writing systems. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z And those writing systems were but two of the ancient forms of writing that evolved independently. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z Yet early in the development of writing systems, the physical act of writing was exceedingly difficult – and one of the reasons schoolchildren prayed for help with their handwriting. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “All it is is a writing system for getting the sounds of words down on the page.” An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Two of the pieces include mirrors, an over-obvious way to draw the viewer into an artwork; their frames, which jumble different writing systems on scraps of paperlike ceramic, are the most interesting aspect of them. In the galleries: A celebration of language from antiquity Because the marks were different in style, scholars believe that the Egyptians developed their own writing system independently. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z Prowling the streets of Tokyo he was struck by the stone markers at temples and businesses inscribed in Kanji, the Chinese characters that led to the modern Japanese writing system. Faithful to Two Worlds: The Marines and the Artistic Life 2010-12-19T22:58:16Z The walls are covered with words, the writing system of some kind of fruiting body. For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Some of the pictures in Victor Ekpuk’s “These Moments,” like his earlier ones, feature ideograms derived from Nsibidi, an ancient African writing system. Review | In the galleries: Powerful messages that require few words 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Before the Canaanites, writing systems used symbols to represent ideas instead of letters to represent sounds. Ancient Comb Has Writing in World’s First Alphabet 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The earliest documented evidence of the Chinese writing system comes from inscriptions on tortoise shells and animal bones that date back to about 3,300 years ago. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z This 16th century engraving shows Christopher Columbus landing in the Americas, where he and his explorers deemed the Indigenous people there as 'primitive,' as they had no writing system. First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. Ancient ‘Unknown’ Script Is Finally Deciphered 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Users are reporting that chatbots are well versed in widely spoken European languages, but quality degrades for languages that are underrepresented online or that have different writing systems. Students switch to AI to learn languages 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z When you look at the alphabets we use to write today, is it strange to think that they grew out of a writing system invented over 3,700 years ago? Ancient Comb Has Writing in World’s First Alphabet 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead, of their various accomplishments, none was to have a more lasting influence than that of their writing system. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z At the other extreme were settled societies with fixed capital cities, centralized administrations funded by routine taxation, and a writing system for their language. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In a promotional video, Chen-yuan Tung, who was then minister of Taiwan’s Overseas Community Affairs Council, emphasized the “long cultural traditions” behind the writing system used in Taiwan. Mandarin classes are a new battleground between China and Taiwan 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z A five-year plan to advance national languages starting last year includes standardizing writing systems for Indigenous languages and bolstering educational resources. Some Indigenous people in Taiwan want to drop their Chinese names: 'That history has nothing to do with mine' 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z They also found something less tangible: the beginnings of the Chinese writing system, in the form of the inscriptions on the animal scapula and tortoise shells known as oracle bones. Ancient Chinese artifacts superb for their time — or indeed any time 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Second, Egypt developed an important social class of scribes whose whole vocation was mastering the complex Egyptian writing systems and keeping extensive records of almost every aspect of life, from religious ritual to mundane record-keeping. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z They also established a range of unique cultural traditions and later a number of sophisticated civilizations characterized by refined religious practices, monumental architecture, large urban populations, and in some cases, writing systems. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In China in the 1950s and 1960s, Mao Zedong tried to make the writing system, which dates back thousands of years, more accessible by simplifying the characters. Mandarin classes are a new battleground between China and Taiwan 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He nearly froze in the 16th century building as he taught himself how to decipher ancient writing systems and read Spanish. Harry Kelsey, former chief curator at L.A.'s Natural History Museum, dies at 93 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Culturally they diverged — with Korea and Vietnam both creating their own writing systems. Anger simmers as ‘Lunar’ replaces ‘Chinese’ new year 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The writing system is based on variations of six raised dots, arranged in two columns of three. Glaucoma sufferer learned Braille in lockdown after losing sight 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z This system was phonetically based, with complex characters, and was far more developed than any other writing system discovered in Mesoamerica. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Written criminal laws are absent in societies without writing systems. Intuitions about justice are a consistent part of human nature across cultures and millennia 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Africa was home to the development of many ancient writing systems, including the system of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that developed during the fourth millennium BCE. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Chinese takeaways included writing systems of Chinese ideographs, philosophies such as Confucianism, religions such as Buddhism, medical techniques such as acupuncture, literary classics, martial arts and more. Anger simmers as ‘Lunar’ replaces ‘Chinese’ new year 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Which culture developed the first writing system in the Western Hemisphere? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Under Shihuangdi’s rule, the tenets of Legalism fostered unity as the emperor standardized the writing system, coins, and the law throughout northern China. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In Clark’s symbolic writing system, specific words and phrases acquiesce to the overpowering whole. Review | In the galleries: Connections in text, image, writing and drawing 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The two languages share a common writing system. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Bouabré became convinced they were the remains of an ancient writing system, and he wanted to use them as the basis for a new alphabet, or syllabary. Review | MoMA is finally paying attention to great artists from Africa 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Monteith, who led the effort to enter the Cherokee writing system into Microsoft Windows and Office, said he has worked on building trust for technology, and more recently AI, in his Native communities for decades. Helping AI learn about Native cultures 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z For many centuries, the kingdom blended its many Egyptian cultural practices with Nubian traditions to develop its own distinctive styles and even writing system. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They developed a writing system, made a very accurate calendar, charted movements of the moon and stars, and created a system for advanced math. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese writing system contains thousands of different characters, so most Chinese printers found movable type impractical. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Often, these under-served languages do not have easily accessible corpuses of written text that are needed to train AI systems or sometimes have no standardized writing system at all. Meta announces plans to build an AI-powered ‘universal speech translator’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z “It’s like having a writing system that can keep up with your thinking,” she said. We asked a computer program to imitate Gay Talese’s writing. Then we asked Talese what he thought. 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z They developed their own writing system around 3000 BCE, even though they adapted Sumerian cuneiform to their language later in the third millennium BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Testing speakers from different writing systems is especially useful, she says, because it helps figure out exactly what underlies the finding. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z So, the Phoenicians developed a writing system that used symbols to represent sounds. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The choice to use this filler on a wide scale will have structural effects A big question, though, is what effect will these AI writing systems have on human writing and, by extension, our culture? The future of AI is a conversation with a computer 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Luckily, Google’s standard Gboard keyboard includes a plethora of language-related keyboards; at last count, it offered over 500 languages over 40 different writing systems. How to switch languages using the Android Gboard keyboard 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The ancient Sumerians were an inventive people responsible for a host of technological advances, most notably a sophisticated writing system. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z To understand how much of a role writing plays in the finding, Ćwiek and her colleagues wanted to test speakers from a much wider sample of languages—and, crucially, different writing systems. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z As they traveled around the Mediterranean, the Phoenicians introduced this writing system to their trading partners. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Iraq is the site of ancient Mesopotamia, a region home to many ancient civilizations including that of the Sumer which developed the cuneiform, one of the world’s oldest writing systems. Trove of missing ancient Mesopotamian artefacts found in Norway 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z They speak a language related to Burmese with its own writing system and traditionally practice a form of shamanism, although some are also Buddhist and Christian. AP PHOTOS: Xi’s portrait adorns new homes for China’s poor 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z They include the institution of the pharaoh, distinctive religious practices, and the Egyptian writing system. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They included speakers of languages from around the world—from Albanian to isiZulu in South Africa—and writing systems as different as Thai, Georgian, and Korean. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z It included a hieroglyphic writing system and a calendar system based on the movement of the sun. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a “hugely important” discovery, said Christophe Helmke, a leading scholar of the city’s writing system at the University of Copenhagen. Beyond public view, scholars unravel mystery of writing in ancient Mexican city 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Plasticity allows the circuit to adapt to any writing system and any medium. Screen-based online learning will change kids' brains. Are we ready for that? | Maryanne Wolf 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z A polytheistic society with a great assortment of deities and its own writing system, Egypt was united under the pharaohs for much of its ancient history. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The study is robust, and its control of writing systems is “useful and important,” says Mark Dingemanse, a linguist at Radboud University. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Despite the sophistication of many aspects of Incan life, the Inca never developed a writing system. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Their cities featured pyramid temples and huge stone buildings, and they used agriculture and metalwork, developed sophisticated irrigation systems and invented a hieroglyphic writing system. Archaeologists discover remains of vast Mayan palace 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z If they disliked or feared you, they would not have told you about this bizarre, lateral evolution of the English writing system. Typing These Two Letters Will Scare Your Young Co-Workers 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z During the Three Kingdoms era, the Chinese writing system spread throughout Korea, allowing those excluded from the ranks of aristocratic families a chance to seek appointment as scribes. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The inscription on the shard was in a Greek syllabic script that was the official writing system of six of Cyprus’ seven ancient city states from the 8th century B.C. Shard reveals how Cyprus’ ancient kingdoms managed economy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Though the Inca had no writing system, they kept records using a quipu, a set of colored strings tied with different-size knots at various intervals. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Derived from an ancient African writing system, the ideograms are an Ekpuk trademark. This free, D.C.-wide festival includes an interactive selfie installation and a traveling art barge 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z In the real Tanis, archeologists found an inscription in three writing systems, which, like the Rosetta stone, was crucial in translating ancient Egyptian. The Day the Dinosaurs Died 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Cuneiform was a very complex writing system, and literacy remained the monopoly of an elite group of highly trained writing specialists, the scribes. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z For some it bears a resemblance to the calligraphic forms of Asian writing systems. The Mystery Font That Took Over New York 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z They also developed a writing system suitable for writing Korean phonetically though still using Chinese characters. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Its writing system has some 7,000 characters, not 26 letters. Beijing’s bid for global power in the age of Trump 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Further, it will adapt to that environment’s requirements – from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used. Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound | Maryanne Wolf 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z At this time, Asia was a region woven together by networks of traveling monks, nomadic peoples, oceanic and overland trade, and shared writing systems. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The budget was tripled this year to about $20 million, and last year, parliament ordered the government to establish a foundation to develop writing systems and dictionaries for indigenous languages. Once banned, the facial tattoo reappears as a cultural asset and political weapon in Taiwan 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The Maya also developed the most advanced writing system in the ancient Americas. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z According to information published by the project's researchers, the language consists of "a series of dialects bearing local names, and, quite frequently, local writing systems," with no single dialect considered to be the standard version. Hundreds of languages are in danger of vanishing. A new audio project aims to preserve the sound of some of them 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Still, there is some evidence that the oral tradition behind the Homeric epics traces as far back as Linear B, the first Greek writing system. A Grecian Artifact Evokes Tales From the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z What Mesoamerican civilization created a complex writing system for recording its history and genealogies? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Olivier Morin, a cognitive anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, analyzed the features of 116 writing systems across 3000 years of history. Why written languages look alike the world over 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Unlike the earlier inhabitants of the Indus Valley, the Aryans had not developed a writing system. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What are the implications of a three-dimensional writing system, in which the sense of touch plays as important a role as sight, and how does this expand our understanding of what “writing” is? Unraveling an Ancient Code Written In Strings 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z But as it turns 90 this year, the Boston-based printing press and other advocates of the tactile writing system are wrestling with how to address record low Braille literacy. Technology seeks to preserve fading skill: Braille literacy 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The exhibition contrasts the wartime codebreakers with their contemporaries who were working on deciphering Linear B inscriptions in Mycenaean Greek, the oldest writing system in Europe. Alan Turing’s school report reveals little of his genius 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z If the work is slow, that’s because standardizing a writing system for computers is a delicate art that relies on both engineering and diplomacy. How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The Mycenaeans adapted the Minoan writing system to the Greek language and decorated vases with Minoan designs. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another Building 8 project, she said, was trying to advance the ability to communicate through touch only, an idea with roots in Braille, a writing system for the blind and visually impaired. Facebook gives peek inside unit studying brain-to-text technology 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Brian Mac Donald, president of the National Braille Press, says the modern blind community needs easier and more affordable ways to access the writing system developed in the 1800s by French teacher Louis Braille. Technology seeks to preserve fading skill: Braille literacy 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z In China, the Han dynasty, which was founded in 206 B.C.E., codified and standardized the Confucian, or Ruist, classics, a process that helped set the terms for the writing system. Learning Arabic from Egypt’s Revolution 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z A graduate student in history at the University of Michigan, he was searching online for forgotten alphabets of South Asia when an image of a mysterious writing system popped up. How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In some of the earliest recorded societies, power was passed down along family lines, but little is known about how prehistoric societies without writing systems transferred power. Genomics: Prehistory's female dynasties : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Working with a team of around 20 people, Mr. Zhou considered more than 2,000 writing systems, according to a 2004 account in the New Yorker. Zhou Youguang, whose Pinyin writing system helped modernize China, dies at 111 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z He returned to China after the communist victory in 1949 and was put in charge of creating a new writing system using the Roman alphabet. China's Zhou Youguang, father of Pinyin writing system, dies aged 111 - BBC News 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z “In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest unit of the writing system of any given language.” The Bot Politic 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z The end was finally in sight — at one point the consortium had barely more than 50 writing systems to add. How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z She spent the first year working on the seven stories that would become her first book, Simple Recipes, devising a writing system that involved repeatedly abandoning and rewriting whole drafts. Madeleine Thien: ‘In China, you learn a lot from what people don’t tell you’ 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z For Everson, this focus has distracted effort and resources away from minority and historical writing systems, such as medieval Cornish. Worried face: the battle for emoji, the world's fastest-growing language 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z This structure is found not just in long-existing spoken languages with writing systems, but in sign languages that arose in a single generation in communities of deaf Bedouins and Nicaraguans. His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Many of the city's signs feature either English or pinyin, a writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using the Roman alphabet. Shanghai mulls removing English from street signs - BBC News 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Although we have had writing systems for millennia, early texts were designed to be read aloud, meaning that literature unfolded at the pace of human speech. I have found a new way to watch TV, and it changes everything 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Arranged in three groups separated by spaces, the markings in La Pasiega resembled a short written message, prompting speculation that the signs formed an early writing system. Mysterious Markings May Hold Clues to Origin of Writing Notably, sequential ordering and an agreed direction of writing are universal features of writing systems. Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Cherokee had no writing system until the early 1800s, when the renowned Sequoyah wrote a syllabary to put its sounds on paper. Hopes of preserving Cherokee language rest with children 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The country also was cursed with a beautiful mess of a writing system. Don’t go overboard praising China’s schools 2014-02-10T01:54:40Z "He thinks it's easier for an African to learn, to get new knowledge, when he works inside an African writing system, an African language." Ivory Coast artist Bouabre dies 2014-01-29T13:03:08Z By definition, a writing system, she notes, “is the systematic representation of spoken language.” Mysterious Markings May Hold Clues to Origin of Writing Bigfoot is also thought to form patterns with sticks and rocks as a kind of writing system. (Big)foot in Mouth: Bigfoot Language 2013-07-24T17:15:05.777Z Indeed there is also another - even older - Cretan writing system, some of which was also found at Knossos. The unsung heroine who helped decode Crete's ancient script 2013-06-05T23:25:15Z William C. Hannas, a linguist and author who speaks or writes 10 languages including Chinese, says the debate on going to an alphabetized writing system, which flourished into the 1950s, is over. Letter from China: Writing Chinese in a Digital World 2012-08-23T06:40:06Z Researchers at Georgia Tech produced the app - to be made available on Apple and Android devices - based on the Braille writing system. App helps blind to text message 2012-02-20T19:57:31Z You're doomed by pursuing so many projects … and you might want to consider that your competitors are a bit better than you are at writing system software.3. Lumia 800: is this Nokia's comeback? 2012-02-13T11:16:11Z First, it meant getting N’Ko into Unicode — the international standard that assigns a unique number to each character in a given writing system. Ventures: Everyone Speaks Text Message 2011-12-09T16:57:19Z China uses a simplified writing system compared to the traditional system used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but some people retyped the book in simplified form. The Saturday Profile: On the Party Circuit, and Upsetting the Party 2011-07-30T00:22:00Z If they are truly phonetic, then we must suppose that palaeolithic man not only invented an alphabetic writing system, but did this right off by intuition, as it were, without any previous knowledge of letters. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z In a series of chapters, Gleick recounts oft-told tales about the invention of writing systems and the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary along with the stories of lesser-known structures of coding and communication. James Gleick?s History of Information 2011-03-18T22:10:16Z English is not threatened by illegal immigrants, or Spanish-language AM radio or government signs printed in 12 different writing systems. English doesn't need help from Republicans 2010-08-19T21:43:00Z Some writing systems, like the ancient Greeks’ boustrophedon, in which alternate lines are read in opposite directions, appear to actually support these pre-literay inclinations. The origins of literacy: The Da Vinci code 2010-07-08T11:50:00Z Cuneiform, one of the world's first writing systems, arrived in the world before 3200 BC and lasted until the third century AD. The missing items 2010-03-31T08:38:00Z Thus the Lampongs, despite their profession of Islam, employ, not the Arabic characters, like the Malays proper, but a script derived from the peculiar Javanese writing system. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The African Ishango Bone predates a writing system by some thousands of years; the quipus of the Inca culture are a sui generis record of people, animals, and goods previous to writing. The Civilization of Illiteracy The rules are based on experiences transmitted from one generation to the next, not necessarily in written form, but reflecting the intrinsic sequentiality of language and its abstract writing system. The Civilization of Illiteracy Our reference can be made to both the dissemination of the writing system based on the Phoenician alphabet, and the language of drawing that makes engineering possible. The Civilization of Illiteracy When two different conventions are applied, the writing system is hybrid: the Korean language has a very powerful alphabet, hangul, but also uses Chinese characters, but pronouned in Korean. The Civilization of Illiteracy Hence the linguistic argument seems to fail completely, while the Babylonian origin of the Chinese writing system, or rather, the derivation of Chinese and Sumerian from some common parent in Central Asia, awaits further evidence. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z |
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