A Study of Writing: The Foundations of Grammatology |
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Sources of Information 8སྶ སེམ ཙཆཚགླུ | 22 |
Rock Painting from Southern Rhodesia Depicting Rain Ceremony | 25 |
Cheyenne Indian Letter | 31 |
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acrophony Aegean Akkadian American Indians ancient Arabic Aramaic Aztec Babylonian basic sign borrowed Byblos century B.C. character Chinese writing consonant consonantal cultural cuneiform writing Cypriote syllabary derived discussed drawings earliest Egyptian writing English Ethiopic example forerunners of writing frequently Greek alphabet Hebrew history of writing Hittite Hittite hieroglyphic Hurrian identical ideography inscriptions invented Japanese Latin Latin alphabet linear linguistic logograms logographic Mallery marks matres lectionis Maya means Mesopotamian cuneiform modern names normally number of signs Oriental systems origin period Persian Phoenician phonetic complements Pictographs pictorial Picture-Writing plene writing primitive principle Proto-Elamite represented scholars Schrift second millennium B.C. semasiography Semitic languages Semitic syllabary Semitic systems sign expresses sound speech spellings stage stand Sumerian Sumerian writing syllabic signs syllabic systems syllabic writing symbols system of writing tion transliterated Ugaritic Uruk values various vowel vowel indication vowel signs West Semitic word signs word-syllabic writing written