Chapter 15: Writing Systems
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Pictograms pictures
drawn to express ideas.
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Rebus principle
borrowing a symbol only for the phonemic value that it encodes.
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Abjads
systems that represent consonants but not vowels.
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Shorthands
written faster than orthographies, designed to be fast enough to record speech verbatim.
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Orthographies
the vast majority of writing systems.
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Alphabet
systems that represent all sounds.
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Cryptographies
codes designed to conceal information.
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Abugidas
systems that represent the consonants with full graphemes and the vowels with extra marks.
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Technographies
scientific tools designed and used by a specialized field.
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Phonographic systems
system that rely predominantly on the representation of sound.
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Phonemic writing systems
uses characters that represent individual sounds or segment.
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