The History of Writing
From pictograms to cuneiform to the alphabet, writing has come a long way
With love letters, research essays, captivating books, and even the text on your phone, writing really shapes the way we use language in our culture. It also tells us a lot about a culture through factors like the different kinds of utensils, medium, and systems that you could use, and the emphasis of certain aspects of a language over others. Japan’s emphasis on the significance of calligraphy for example, or even the revival of the Hebrew language in Israel after its decline for over 1600 years!
Writing can also be used to analyze the context of the origin of the language and the history behind it. Through analyzing ancient writing systems, we have been able to learn so much about the way our ancestors lived a couple thousand years ago.
Here I’ll show the progress of writing methods over time:
Pictographs: The first known writing system is the concept of pictographs. Pictographs are basically drawings that represent a physical object and are used to communicate ideas. They originated in around 9000 BC in cultures everywhere, including…
