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The Development Of Writing
The document discusses the development of writing systems throughout history from early pictograms to modern alphabets. It describes the evolution from pictographic scripts to ideographic, logographic, and syllabic systems. Key developments include the Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Phoenician alphabet which later influenced the Greek and Latin alphabets. The document also examines how writing systems encode different levels of meaning through capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations and other graphical contrasts to enhance readability and convey semantic information.
