The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing...

earlier histories of China. From the 13th century, the dominance of Chinese characters began to be challenged by chữ Nôm, a different writing system based...

Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language. A writing system uses a set of symbols and rules to encode aspects of spoken...

intonation. Writing was first invented in the late 4th millennium BC. Each independently invented writing system in human history evolved from a system of proto-writing...

bodies of their messengers. Asemic writing Cylcon Dispilio Tablet History of ancient numeral systems History of communication History of writing Message...

short descriptions of redirect targets History of writing Jeton – Coin-like counting token List of numeral system topics List of numeral systems Relationship...

the first appearance of Homo sapiens to before the invention of writing see: Timeline of prehistory These timelines of world history detail recorded events...

A numeral system is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or...

one. However, Egyptian writing appeared suddenly at that time, while Mesopotamia had a long evolutionary history of the usage of signs—for agricultural...

Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries:...

for the writing systems listed here (unless otherwise specified). Certain forms of proto-writing remain undeciphered and, because of a lack of evidence...

Writing assessment refers to an area of study that contains theories and practices that guide the evaluation of a writer's performance or potential through...

joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster...

In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they...

history, recorded history begins with the accounts of the ancient world around the 4th millennium BC, and it coincides with the invention of writing....

script was the writing system of the Hungarians. It was in use during the entire history of Hungary, albeit not as an official writing system. From the...

The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE. Nearly...

are not included. The gross characterization of writing materials is by the material constituting the writing surface (for example, paper) and the number...

Mediterranean region. In the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems...

other symbols. Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script...

concepts and words of drawing and writing were the same (Egyptian: 's-sh', Greek: 'graphein'). The next advancement in the history of communications came...

press History of the alphabet History of books History of graphic design History of paper History of photography History of writing Museum of Printing...

ideograms may form part of a writing system otherwise based on other principles, like the examples above in the phonetic English writing system—while also potentially...

The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five volume multi-authored history of historical writing published by Oxford University Press under the...

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically...

The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François...

during the Iron Age, centuries after the loss of Linear B, the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the Late Bronze Age collapse...

earliest writing systems; the first historical civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica used some form of logographic writing. All logographic...

the Old French escroe or escroue) is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing. The history of scrolls dates back to ancient Egypt. In most...

Handwriting is the writing done with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil, in the hand. Handwriting includes both block and cursive styles and...