Origin of Alphabet
Alphabet/World
Writing/Society
Writing/Identity
Decipherment
100
The inventor of Hangul
Who is King Sejong?
100
The location of the invention of paper.
What is China?
100
Reading and writing at a minimal level in day-to-day living.
What is functional literacy?
100
This ethnic group in North Africa uses the Tifinagh script.
Who are the Tuareg?
100
The writing of alternate lines in opposite directions.
What is boustrophedon?
200
The first sound of the name of the letter is what the sound represents
What is the acrophonic principle?
200
This guy invented the printing press.
Who is Gutenberg?
200
A formal literacy instruction program such as that offered at community colleges or through volunteer tutors.
What is Adult Basic Education (ABE)?
200
The language of the Tuareg?
What is Berber?
200
He deciphered Linear B.
Who is Michael Ventris?
300
Seqoya's Cherokee script is this kind of script
What is a syllabary?
300
The term meaning “women’s writing” in Chinese.
What is Nüshu?
300
This lady’s file-cards helped discover grammatical patterns in Linear B.
Who is Alice Kober?
300
When one uses different languages or dialects in one conversation
What is code-switching?
300
A constructed script (as opposed to one evolved from another script).
What is grammatogeny?
400
A list of alphabetic signs in a standard order.
What is an abecedary?
400
The name of the (Germanic) runic alphabet
What is futhark?
400
Reading and writing beyond survival levels, taking pleasure from a wide range of reading materials.
What is "true literacy."
400
Define "sociolinguistics."
What is the influence of society on language and the influence of language on society?
400
The language of the Easter Islands.
What is Rongorongo?
500
The language family to which the earliest alphabetic pictograms belonged.
What is Semitic?
500
These people transmitted the alphabet from the Greeks to the Romans.
Who are the Etruscans?
500
The identification of offers, both products and services.
What is "branding"?
500
These two Baltic languages sound exactly the same, but use different scripts for political reasons.
What are Serbian and Croatian?
500
The Spanish missionary who recorded the Mayan script.
Who is Diego de Landa?
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