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Writing Systems

Language is universal among humans; writing is not. Writing has been independently invented at most five times in the history of the species, and most...

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Language is universal among humans; writing is not. Writing has been independently invented at most five times in the history of the species, and most peoples have lived and died without it. Key sections include: Writing Systems.; Opening The technology that made history.; Chapter I Cuneiform.; Chapter II Hieroglyphs.; Chapter III The Rosetta Stone.; Chapter IV The first alphabet.; Chapter V Adding vowels.; Chapter VI The Latin alphabet.; Chapter VII The longest tradition.; Chapter VIII Mesoamerican glyphs..

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  1. 01Writing Systems.
  2. 02Opening The technology that made history.
  3. 03Chapter I Cuneiform.
  4. 04Chapter II Hieroglyphs.
  5. 05Chapter III The Rosetta Stone.
  6. 06Chapter IV The first alphabet.
  7. 07Chapter V Adding vowels.
  8. 08Chapter VI The Latin alphabet.
  9. 09Chapter VII The longest tradition.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Mesoamerican glyphs.
  11. 11Chapter IX Ventris.
  12. 12Chapter X The script designed by a king.
  13. 13Chapter XI The abugida family.
  14. 14Chapter XII The abjad.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Slavic and beyond.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The square script.
  17. 17Chapter XV Three scripts at once.
  18. 18Chapter XVI The undeciphered.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Sequoyah's syllabary.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The numbers we use.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Movable type.
  22. 22Chapter XX Spelling and orthography.
  23. 23Chapter XXI Encoding the world.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Which way the script runs.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Writing as art.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Undeciphered scripts.
  27. 27Chapter XXV Twenty essentials.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII The structural argument.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII Where scripts go.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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2026-05-15
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