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This type of script represents sounds using a set of letters, where each letter corresponds to a specific phoneme. It is used in many modern languages, including English.
What is an Alphabetic Script?
This type of script, used in Chinese writing, represents a whole word rather than a single sound or syllable
What is Logographic Script?
These three script types are used in Japanese writing
What is Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana?
These script types are used in Maya glyphs
What is logograms and syllabic symbols?
This term refers to the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another
What is a Phoneme?
This type of script, used in languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, primarily represents consonants and usually requires additional symbols or context to indicate vowels
What is an Abjad?
Historically, Chinese texts were written in this direction
What is Top to Bottom, Right to Left?
This script contains 46 basic characters and is primarily used for native Japanese words and is characterized by its cursive appearance
What is hiragana?
In the Maya numerical system, this symbol represents the number one.
What is the "Dot"?
This type of symbol represents a concept or object directly through its pictorial resemblance
What is a Pictogram?
This type of symbol uses pictures or symbols to represent words or phrases based on their phonetic sounds or meanings, often resulting in a play on words.
What is Rebus?
This ancient script, used during the Shang Dynasty, was inscribed on animal bones and turtle shells for divination purposes and is one of the earliest forms of Chinese writing.
What is Oracle Bone Script?
This syllabary script used for foreign technical terms has straight forward characters and is often seen in words like コンピュー
What is Katakana?
This complex calendar system includes a 260-day cycle known as the Tzolk’in
What is the Maya Calendar?
This type of character in writing systems represents a whole word or concept rather than a single phoneme or syllable
What is a Logogram?
This runic alphabet, was used by the Germanic peoples before the adoption of the Latin alphabet
What is Futhark?
In the Chinese writing system, this character 馬 (mǎ) in Traditional Chinese means?
What is Horse?
This logographic script, borrowed from Chinese, represents meanings rather than sounds
What is Kanji?
This term refers to the Maya glyphs that represent individual sounds or syllables rather than whole words
What are Phonetic Syllabic Glyphs?
This type of writing system uses characters where each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme or entire word
What is a Syllabary?
This script system, used in languages like Korean, involves a combination of individual characters that each represent a single sound, organized into blocks to form syllables
What is Hangul?
This character, which represents "tree" or "wood" in Chinese
What is 木 (mù)?
When were all three script types introduced into the Japanese writing system?
what is the late 9th century?
Who made crucial contributions to understanding the script’s phonetic elements
Who is Yuri Knorozov?
This term describes the smallest grammatical unit in a language that carries meaning
What is a morpheme?