Origins of Language: writing vocabulary
AM I THE ONLY ONE IN MS ARVIDSON'S CLASS? BESIDES HELENA BUT SHE DOESN'T COUNT BUT WHY AM I WRITING THIS ANYWAYS CUZ NO ONES GOING TO READ THIS!!!!
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- pictograph
- a glyph painted on stone (like cave Paintings)
- scribe
- a person who records things a human typewriter, a person who specailizes in reading and writing a job
- Rosetta stone
- Is a famous stone that records a Decree of King Ptolemy in 3 different scripts
- petroglyph
- a glyph etched in stone or clay
- hieratic script
- a cursive form of heirglyphics simplified form
- pictogram
- a picture that represents a thing
- phonogram
- a symbol thet represents a sound
- logogram
- a symbol that represents a entire word
- Papyrus
- A kind of plant used as paper by the ancient Egyptians, grew on the Nile River
- demotic script
- involving all og th common script of one area
- phonetic
- a symbol that represents a sound shortend version of long wrd
- glyphs
- is a shape that has symbolic meaning, that conveys meaning
- ideogram
- it's a picture that represents a idea
- alphabet
- the letters that make u our language each letter stands for a different sound
- stylus
- A small pointed rod/stick used for engraving cuneiform originally made of small reeds
- Behistun inscription
- a cliff that has Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonin inscribed it in Persia
- cuneiform
- based on pictograms, and drawings became wedge shaped symbols
- clay tablet
- a form of paper written on by a stylus usaully containing a form of cuniform