The shift to alphabetic writing made widespread literacy more attainable. It became easier to learn how to write and, perhaps more important, easier to learn how to read. With a writing system that could easily represent spoken language, it became possible to conceive of recording a lecture, a political speech, or a plan of action. Those permanent records led to many changes in society. It overstates...
Monday, June 13, 2016
English Alphabet || capital letters and small letters in English
English is one of the most popular languages in the world. It is used in most of the countries as second language or official language. It has become the way of communication for people around the globe. Bellow are the English Aplphabet:
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Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
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Minuscule...
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Development of the Alphabet
She presents evidence thatsimple tokens (e.g., spheres, disks, cones) indicating quantities of stored grain appearedwith the development of agriculture in 8000–7500 B.C.E. More complex tokens representing manufactured goods appeared with elaborate markings at the time when cities and organized states developed, around 3500–3000 B.C.E. The earliest full-fledged writing systems then grew out of methods...
Development of the Alphabet
Although the details are the subject of active research and scholarly debate, there is a rough consensus on the general development of writing and the series of stages that were involved. However, many scholars disagree about the precise dates or sources of the changes that moved writing from one stage to the next.
In the earliest stage, any culture possesses a system of meaning; in fact, that is...
Alphabets and Writing
This entry, in fact, this entire encyclopedia, would be a very different object if there were no alphabet. Although there are nonalphabetic writing systems and there are ways to communicate other than through writing, an alphabet is one of the most powerful tools for the easy expression of a diverse range of ideas.
An alphabet facilitates a print culture, one in which permanent records...