Explore: Writing History

The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing –

language. The history of writing is co-extensive with uses of writing and the elaboration of activity systems that give rise to and circulate writing. Individual

earlier history of Chinese language. From the 13th century, the dominance of Chinese characters began to be challenged by chữ Nôm, a different writing system

Creative writing is any writing that goes beyond the boundaries of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically

undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist. The term "writing systems" is

language. The earliest writing appeared during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each independently invented writing system gradually emerged

recently defined as "the study of the way history has been and is written—the history of historical writing", which means that, "When you study 'historiography'

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according

idéa 'idea' + gráphō 'to write') is a symbol that is used within a given writing system to represent an idea or concept in a given language. (Ideograms

In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they