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Origins
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Intro
What
Is
Writing?
Birthplace
of
Writing
Children of
Egypt
The Neanderthal Script
Oracle
Bones
Extinct
Scripts
Invented
Writing
Punctuation
&
Symbols
Number
Systems
Lessons
From
Writing
CONTENTS
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Introduction
※ Terms
※ Scope
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What is writing?
※ A cultural technology
※ Writing as a modality
※ Writing as a notational system
※ Genesis of writing
※ Breakthroughs in writing
※ Why here and not there?
※ Genesis of writing
※ Early record-keeping
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Birthplace of writing
※ Bouchard's discovery
※ Egyptian hieroglyphs
※ Decipherment of the Rosetta stone
※ The world's first alphabet (almost)
※ Proto-Canaanite & Phoenician
※ Proto-Sinaitic's cousins
※ Children of Phoenicia
※ Aramaic & its descendants
※ Brahmi (mother of the Asian abugidas)
※ The world's first true alphabet
※ Children of Greece
※ One minuscule detail
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The Neanderthal Script
※ Discovery of cuneiform
※ Decipherment
※ Sumerian origins
※ Ugaritic cuneiform
※ Old Persian cuneiform
※ Displacement by Aramaic
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Oracle Bones
※ Origins
※ Decipherment
※ Evolution
※ Various Chinese forms
※ Descendants of Chinese
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Extinct Scripts
※ Aegean scripts
※ Vinča
※ Linear Elamite
※ Luwian hieroglyphs
※ Harappan (Indus) script
※ Meso-American writing
※ Nsibidi
※ Rongorongo
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Invented Writing
※ Korean Hangul
※ Native American scripts
※ African scripts
※ Afaka
※ Asian scripts
※ Shavian & Quickscript
※ Blissymbolics
※ Fictional scripts
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Punctuation & Symbols
※ Scriptio continua
※ Spacing
※ Aristophanes' system
※ Various punctuation marks
※ Non-Western punctuation
※ Other symbols
※ Mathematical symbols
※ Correction symbols
※ Diacritics
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Number Systems
※ Numbers, numerals & digits
※ Sign-value notation
※ Finger counting
※ Alphabetic numerals
※ Gematria
※ Roman numerals
※ Chinese numbers
※ Positional (place-value) numbers
※ Bases
※ Zero
※ Babylonian numbers
※ Measuring time
※ Mayan numbers
※ Hindu-Arabic numbers
※ Chinese positional systems
※ Incan Quipu
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Lessons From Writing
※ Epistemology & ontology
※ Cultural transmission
※ Biological parallels
※ Speciation
※ Standardisation
※ Dominance
※ Politics
※ Technology
※ Homogenisation
※ Relativity theory
※ Cognitive effects of writing
※ Writing systems as assets
※ Preservation
Appendices
※ Glossary
※ Useful websites
※ Bibliography
※ Image & Audio sources
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