LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Acrophony, Acrophobia, Logogram
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History: tracing writing as a technology; tracing glyphs and their value. Cuneiform: sumerian writing system, later hittite ad akkadian. Phoenician (1000 bce) (and proto-ca aa ite, earlier) Acrophobia: glyph = 1st sound of word. Ex: hieroglyph for net (cid:858)(cid:449)ater(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:449)a(cid:448)e s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ol(cid:895); phoe(cid:374)i(cid:272)ia(cid:374) logogra(cid:373) for mem (cid:858)(cid:449)ater(cid:859) (cid:894)s(cid:449)iggle(cid:895), the(cid:374) for [(cid:373)] i(cid:374) phoe(cid:374)i(cid:272)ia(cid:374), a(cid:271)jad; greek letter for [m] (capital m)- etruscan, roman, cyrillic, etc. For latin- each symbol represents one sound. For other languages: new symbols, combinations (digraphs), diacritics. Throughout former roman empire where romance languages are spoken. Post-empire diffusion throughout sphere of influence of catholic church. Turkish: colonial and postcolonial adoption as script for indigenous languages of w hemisphere, africa, oceania. Cyrillic represented older slavic languages- e orthodox church. Siberian, turkic, caucasian, fu languages: kazakh, kyrghyz, tuvan, abkhaz, not georgian. So(cid:373)e gl(cid:455)phs re(cid:272)ur (cid:271)ut (cid:449)ith diff sou(cid:374)ds (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) alpha(cid:271)ets: (cid:272)h, s. Across alphabets: p, m, c, b, u, h.
