Who writes how?

From: Bryan Maloney <bjm10_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:47:57 -0400 (EDT)

It was hashed over some time ago, but I forget how it fell out. Which cultures write in which manners? That is, who uses which of the following systems:

Logographic
Logosyllabic
Syllabic
Consonantal Alphabetic
Alphabetic.

A brief introduction to the systems can be found at
"http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lorentz/Ancient_Scripts/connections.html".
Relatedly, a really great way of understanding the theory of logographic and logosyllabic systems can be found at
"http://www.tezcat.com/~markrose/yingzi/yingzi.htm".

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