Quote: the stages of writing systems are pictographic, logographic, syllabary, and alphabetic; evolves when adapted by a new culture

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The earliest writing systems were first pictographic, representing … level of the whole word. As these writing … ways, resulting in a systematic progression from logography … of the morphemic and phonemic structure of the … the system tends to become frozen, but rather … [Gelb, 1952; L. Gleitman & Rozin, 1977].   Google-1   Google-2

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