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Intro

What

Is

Writing?

Birthplace

of

Writing

Children of

Egypt

Cuneiform:

"Neanderthal

Script"

Oracle

Bones

Extinct

Scripts

Invented

Writing

Punctuation

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Symbols

Number

Systems

Lessons

From

Writing

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Introduction

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※ 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?
※ Early record-keeping

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Birthplace of writing

※ Bouchard's discovery
※ Egyptian hieroglyphs
※ Decipherment of the Rosetta stone

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Children of Egypt

※ 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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CUNEIFORM: "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

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※ 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

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Appendices

※ Glossary
※ Useful websites
※ Bibliography
※ Image & Audio sources
※ Acknowledgements

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