1. According to the article, why was writing invented?
Was invented, in order to recording information, to comunicate and make things more easier.
2. Writing is both a noun and a verb. Explain.
writing as a noun, the thing that is written; and writing as a verb, which designates the activity of writing. It refers to the inscription of characters on a medium, thereby forming words, and larger units of language, known as texts.
3. Name the 4 different categories of writing systems.
logographic, syllabic, alphabetic, and featural.
4. Why are ideographic and pictographic methods NOT considered categories of
writing systems?
Ideographic: (symbols for ideas), never was developed sufficiently to represent language.
Pictographic: was insufficient to represent language on its own
5. Name 10 different types of writing tools and materials.
There are: stone tablets, clay tablets, wax tablets, vellum, parchment, paper, copperplate, styluses, quills, ink brushes, pencils, pens, and many styles of lithography
6. True or False: The difference between prehistory and history is when written records were kept.
False
7. Who developed the first writing system:
a. Sumerians
b. Mesopotamians
c. Hittites
d. none of these answers are correct.
8. Which cultural group were the only ones to develop a written language in the Americas?
By the Maya culture
9. It is possible that the Chinese language was developed:
a. c. 1500 BCE
b. c. 6000 BCE
c. c. 3200 BCE
d. none of the answers are correct.
10. Where does the word, alphabet, originate?
The word "alphabet" came into Middle English from the Late Latin word Alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Ancient Greek.
Alphabetos, from “alpha” and “beta”, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.
11. Name 3 types of NON-linear writing systems.
numerals, mathematical symbols, and punctuation.
12. Name 2 examples of NON-alphabetic writing systems.
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters are two of the best-known writing systems with predominantly non-alphabetic representations.
13. The alphabet helps distinguish between which 2 types of spoken sounds?
the International Phonetic Alphabet and phonetic approximation of foreign words.
æ in Old English
15. Japanese is a complicated language not only because there a 3 different forms of the written language and there are at least 14 levels of formality, but because the spoken language originated from the Korean peninsula and the written language originated from China. English has a similar complicated history. Briefly explain the origins of the English language.
English is a West Germanic language which originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the northern Netherlands.
Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England. One of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate.
The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion: the first by speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic language family, who conquered and colonized parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries; the second by the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman.
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