Types
Writing systems around the world are often classified into expansive "type" or "groups". They are grouped based on the way they correspond to their fundamental languages. These group can be divided into six main categories.
Logographic |
Syllabic |
Consonantal
Alphabetic |
Logophonetic |
Syllabic
Alphabetic |
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Logographic
The logograhic system of writing uses an astounding amount of signs and symbols to represent a word or a meaning part of a word. In others words, a morpheme. A morpheme is a meaningful unit in language. In a logograhic system a logogram is a sign or symbol that can represent a entire word, part of a word or a phrase. It is because of this that the symbols can be overwhelming in number. For example, Chinese has over 10,000 signs although many of them are not used often. Other examples of languages that use the logographic are...
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Logophonetic
This writing system is remarkably like a simplified version of the logograhic system of writing. It is basically made up of two main types of symbols, ones denoting morphemes and ones denoting sounds. "One denoting" is basically the most basic concept. But there are exceptions to this rule, Egyptian is one of them. There phonetic signs denote consonants. Other examples of logophonetic writing systems are...
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Syllabic
A syllabic writing system contains symbols used to make up whole words. These symbols represent whole syllables instead of individual sounds. There are some exceptions to this though such as numbers, commonly used words and punctuation. Examples of syllabic writing systems are...
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Syllabic Alphabetic
A syllabic alphabetic writing system is when the system fits into both syllabary and an alphabet categories. A few examples of this writing system is...
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Consonantal Alphabetic
Consonantal Alphabetic writing systems (also commonly known as abjads) are a system in which there is one symbol per consonantal phoneme (phoneme: the smallest phonetic unit that can represent a sound and meaning). Some examples of this writing system are...
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C and V Alphabetic
In this writing system basically all sounds in a language can be represented in a consonant and vowel alphabet. Examples are...
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