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'''Writing''' is a way of putting down information in a text or [[pictorial]] form.  Unlike [[speech]] it is a form of [[communication]] that has a continuing nature in that it still exists or can be seen after it is completed.

'''Writing''' is a way of putting down information in a textual form.  Unlike unrecorded [[speech]] it is a form of [[communication]] that has a continuing nature in that it still exists or can be seen after it is completed.

==History==

==History==

The forerunners to writing were carved sticks or knotted chords that conveyed information.  Prehistoric writing takes the form of cave art such as found in [[France]].  The cultures that developed in [[Egypt]] and [[Sumeria]] both started with pictorial forms which led to Egyptian [[hieroglyphics]] and Sumerian [[cuneiform]].  The [[Hittites]], Egyptians and Mesotopanians all devised symbols for specific sounds known as phonetic writing.  During the 2nd millennium B.C., Semetic [[alphabet]]s emerged allowing writing as know it.  The [[Greeks]] and the [[Romans]] both copied these earlier alphabets.

The forerunners to writing were carved sticks or knotted cords that conveyed information.  Prehistoric writing took the form of cave art such as found in [[France]].  The cultures that developed in [[Egypt]] and [[Sumeria]] both started with pictorial forms which led to Egyptian [[hieroglyphics]] and Sumerian [[cuneiform]].  The [[Hittites]], Egyptians and Mesopotanians all devised symbols for specific sounds known as phonetic writing.  During the 2nd millennium B.C., Semetic [[alphabet]]s emerged allowing writing as know it.  The [[Greeks]] and the [[Romans]] both copied these earlier alphabets.

==Sources==

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