Universal Writing System

• published: 22 Apr 2015
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universal writing system AllySatis.org The internet appears to suggest that the dream of universal communication across the barriers of language, nation, and culture by means of writing is within reach. Three centuries ago, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote: “As regards signs, I see … clearly that it is to the interest of the Republic of Letters and especially of students, that learned men should reach agreement on signs.” The world needs a universal language. That is not to say that everyone should speak the same language. That isn't possible or desirable in this world at this time. The world needs a universal language through which people of different cultures can communicate regardless of what languages they speak. we already have universal picture language. Arabic numerals are the most common symbolic representation of numbers in the world. Pasigraphie The Chinese writing system developed more than 4,000 years ago; the oldest extant examples of written Chinese are from the 14th or 15th cent. B.C., when the Shang dynasty flourished. Chinese writing consists of an individual character or ideogram for every syllable, each character representing a word or idea rather than a sound; thus, problems caused by homonyms in spoken Chinese are not a difficulty in written Chinese. The written language is a unifying factor culturally, for although the spoken languages and dialects may not be mutually comprehensible in many instances, the written form is universal. Moderm Japanese Korean African Ancient Hmong Writing systems can be conveniently classified into broad "types" depending on the way they represent their underlying languages. Logographic A system of this kind uses a tremendous number of signs, each to represent a morpheme. A morpheme is the minimal unit in a language that carries some meaning. So, a logogram, a sign in a logographic system, may represent a word, or part of a word (like a suffix to denote a plural noun). Because of this, the number of signs could grow to staggering numbers like Chinese which has more than 10,000 signs (most of them unused in everyday usage). Chinese Jurchen Khitan Mixtec Naxi Nushu Tangut Logophonetic This is somewhat like a stripped down versions of logographic systems. In essence, there are two major types of signs, ones denoting morphemes and ones denoting sounds. Most of the logophonetic systems are logosyllabic, meaning that their phonetic signs mostly denote syllables. An exception is Egyptian, whose phonetic signs denote consonants. Akkadian Aztec Cretan Hieroglyphs Cuneiform Egyptian Elamite Epi-Olmec Hittite Indus Script Japanese Linear A Linear B Luwian Maya Sumerian Teotihuacan Zapotec Syllabic In a syllabic writing system, the overwhelming number of signs are used solely for their phonetic values. These phonetic signs are Syllabograms, meaning that they represent syllables rather than individual sound. A few non-phonetic are used for numbers, punctuation, and commonly used words. Bengali Brahmi Buginese Burmese Byblos Cherokee Cree Cypriot Devanagari Dhivehi Ethiopic Grantha Gujarati Gupta Gurmukhi hPhags-pa Inuktitut Javanese Kadamba Kalinga Kannada Kashmiri Kawi Kharosthi Khmer Landa Lao Lepcha Malayalam Mangyan Meithei Mayek Meroïtic Modi Nagari Old Persian Old Kannada Oriya Rejang Sarada South Asian Writing Systems South Asian Writing Systems Comparison Sinhala Tagalog Takri Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Tocharian Vatteluttu Consonantal Alphabet or Abjad Consonantal alphabets are also known as abjads, and are all descendents of the Proto-Sinaitic script. In a "pure" consonantal alphabet, vowels are not written. However, nearly consonantal alphabets use certain conventions to Arabic Aramaic Avestan Berber Hebrew Nabataean Old Hebrew Pahlavi Palmyrene Phoenician Proto-Sinaitic Samaritan Syriac South Arabian Thamudic Tifinagh Ugaritic