Vinca Writing
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It is the name given to a type of marks found on a series of prehistoric artifacts.
found in the southeast [Link] consider brands as a system ofwriting
attributable to theVinča Culture, who inhabited the region towards6000-4000 [Link] doubt that the
marks represent a writing, citing the brevity of the inscriptions found and the
scarce of repeated symbols.
Pictographic Writing
Pictographic writing is a form ofcommunicationwriting that dates backNeolithic,where the
The man used pictographs to represent objects through drawings on a stone tablet.
Writing on stones is the first manifestation of graphic expression and is characterized by the fact that
Each sign of the graphic code is the translation of a phrase or a complete statement. This type
writing consists ofpictograms, andThat is to say, signs that represent objects.
In the pictography, the scenes had a causative purpose, depicting men hunting buffalo to
that the buffalo could be hunted, besides thesymbolsthey were usediconic(they looked like)
what they represented, a bull was a bull and nothing else). Over time, pictography gave way to
theideography.
CUNEIFORM SCRIPT
Cuneiform writing is commonly accepted as one of the oldest forms.
ofwritten expression, saccording to the record of archaeological remains.
At the end of theIV millennium [Link] began to write their media languagePictograms,
that represented words and objects, but not abstract concepts. An example of this stage is the
we can observe in thetablet of [Link] 2600 BC, pictographic symbols were already
they clearly differed from the original ideogram, and by the end of that millennium, in order to make it more
the writing was easy, they were already completely different.
Cuneiform was originally written on wet clay tablets using a plant stem.
wedge-shaped bevel, hence its name. During the period Akkadianthey also began to
to use metal and stone.
Hieroglyphic writing
The hieroglyphs were a writing system invented by theancient [Link] was used
from thepredynastic perioduntil the4th [Link] ancient Egyptians used three basic types of
writing: hieroglyphichieraticydemotic; andthis last one corresponds to theLate period of Egypt.
It is a complex system, writing that is simultaneously figurative, symbolic, and phonetic, in the same text, a
same phrase, I would almost say in the same word.
Jean-François Champollion
It is characterized by the use of signs, whose meaning is understood through the deciphering of texts.
contents in theRosetta Stonethat was found in1799in which a is recorded
decree in three types of writing: hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek uncial. To manage to decipher this
we owe the document to the studies conducted byThomas Young and, fundamentally,
aJean-François Champollion who managed to decipher the method of its reading in 1822, 23 years
after the stone was discovered.
Aramaic Writing
ThealphabetAramaic is an [Link] for writingAramaic language. Comor the others
abyads, all the letters representconsonantssomematres lectionisthey are consonants that
they also representvowelslong
The earliest inscriptions in the Aramaic language use thePhoenician [Link] that time, the
The alphabet developed in the form shown below. The use of Aramaic as alingua francaa
through theMiddle Eastsince the8th century [Link] led to the gradual adoption of the Aramaic alphabet
to [Link], Hebrew was written using an alphabet close to Phoenician,
callpaleo-Hebrew alphabet.
AQUITANIAN SCRIPT
It is amusical notation systememployee between the 9th and 13th centuries. It consisted of a series of
graphic signs that were written above a text and represented one or severalsounds
without specifying the rhythm. The notations specify the number of sounds, the way in which they
they articulated with each other, as well as theTonala situationmelodicof the relative and imprecise sounds
inside ascale. CoIt constitutes one of the first systematic attempts tomusical notation.
This type of musical notation is closer to being a mnemonic aid than a system.
musical in the strict sense, since the texts of neumes could not be deciphered unless
I knew themelodypreviously.
