Saturday, January 24, 2009
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
CUNEIFORM WRITING- wedge shaped system, takes it's name from wedge lettering used to used over western asia. originally hieroglyphics, each denoting object/idea + like chinese corrupted into what is on assyrian monuments. originated w/ accadians of chaldea, who spoke an agglutinative language + borrowed by their semetic conquerers-the babylonians + assyrians. phonetic + ideas graphically even in accadian time, but not reducted into a systematic syllabary until the semites changes accadian into phonetic values. abundance of clay made it the best to use. taken into assyria. in the 9th C BC alarodian tribes of armenia borrowed the letters, but made their 1 value only. at a later date 'turanian' population of media + susiania did the same producing protomedic to persia. persia 40 characters under darius getting simpler. divided into archaic, hieratic, assyrian, + later babalonian.
CUNEIFORM WRITING- wedge shaped system, takes it's name from wedge lettering used to used over western asia. originally hieroglyphics, each denoting object/idea + like chinese corrupted into what is on assyrian monuments. originated w/ accadians of chaldea, who spoke an agglutinative language + borrowed by their semetic conquerers-the babylonians + assyrians. phonetic + ideas graphically even in accadian time, but not reducted into a systematic syllabary until the semites changes accadian into phonetic values. abundance of clay made it the best to use. taken into assyria. in the 9th C BC alarodian tribes of armenia borrowed the letters, but made their 1 value only. at a later date 'turanian' population of media + susiania did the same producing protomedic to persia. persia 40 characters under darius getting simpler. divided into archaic, hieratic, assyrian, + later babalonian.
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