ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Abjad, Abugida, Phoneme
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System of language: a complex system relating sound and meaning: a system of signs and symbols (graphic representation) that represent linguistic speech. Where language related to meaning by sound, writing is visual. Pictures represent different statement and are less precise than writing: pictures: multivocal, more specific than language and writing. Numbers: not a part of the writing system but they are a communication system: number communication exists in many different languages, incomplete systems, numbers are not related to spoken words and exist independently from language. Writing systems and language: system of signs or symbols or graphic representations that represent linguistic speech related phenomenon. Writing is defined as a conventionally accepted system of visible marks, that represent elements of a corresponding spoken language. Writing represents language as arbitrary signs: makes use of visual rather than the oral channel, unlike verbal speech, which is primary, writing is secondary.
