LSA369 Writing Systems Week 2

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LSA369Writing SystemsWeek 2

• Richard Sproat
• URL http//catarina.ai.uiuc.edu/LSA369/

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Ladino Yiddish
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Chinese script liu shu (??)

• Pictograms (??) ? sun, day ? person ? dog
• Indicatives (??) ? up ? down ? concave ?
  convex
• Semantic-semantic compounds/ideograms (??) ?
  trust ? ? (person speech)
• Semantic-phonetic compounds (??) ? (? ?)
  INSECT huang2
• Redirected characters (??) ? old -gt ? aged
• False borrowings (??) rebuses ? come

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Two-Dimensional Catenators
95 of Chinese Characters ever invented consist
of a semantic and a phonetic component
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Chinese xingsheng characters
cod (from Japanese)
lump
move
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r_chemical_elements
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Disyllabic morphemes with xingsheng characters
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Japanese kokuji (??)
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Chu-Nom
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Kana
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Linear B
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Linear B
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Mayan
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Cherokee
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Vai
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Unified Canadian Syllabics
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Yi
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Egyptian uniliteral signs
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Egyptian biliteral signs
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Egyptian triliteral signs
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Arabic
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Syriac
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Greek
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(No Transcript)
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Glagolitic
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Brahmi
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Some Brahmi-derived scripts
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Indus script
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Devanagari
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Devanagari Vowels
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Kannada Diacritic Vowels
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(No Transcript)
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(No Transcript)
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Ethiopic
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Pahawh Hmong
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Hangul
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Hangul
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Sumerian
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Egyptian
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Mayan
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Mayan
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Mayan
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Chinese
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Japanese
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English vowel mappings
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Chinese semantic radicals
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Chinese semantic radicals
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Yiddish
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Akkadian
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Cuneiform Hittite
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Heterograms
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Manx Gaelic Spelling
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Traditional vs. Manx orthography
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Statistics on the use of ltChgt