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  2. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Single Proto-Norse words are found on the Øvre Stabu spearhead (second half of the 2nd century) and the Vimose Comb (c. 160). 292: Mayan: Stela 29 from Tikal [78] A brief undeciphered inscription at San Bartolo is dated to the 3rd century BC. [79] 312–313: Sogdian: Ancient Letters, found near Dunhuang [80] 328: Arabic: Namara inscription: c ...

  3. Writing in childhood - Wikipedia

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    Writing in childhood is the process of developing writing abilities during the early years of life, generally from infancy to adolescence.Writing in childhood encompasses the growth of writing abilities, including acquiring skills to write letters and words, comprehending grammar and sentence structure, and cultivating the capacity to communicate ideas and feelings through written language ...

  4. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  5. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    This article cites its sources but its page reference ranges are too broad or incorrect. Please help in adding a more precise page range. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Survey of eight prominent scripts (left to right, top to bottom): Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Maya script, Devanagari, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Braille Part of ...

  6. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The main examples were the Italian hand and the English round-hand, which in Britain were taught to men and women respectively, these scripts feature flowing letters which could be written with a single pen lift (with the exception of x and the marks added after writing the word which were dots on i and j and the bar of the ascender of t) with ...

  7. Old English - Wikipedia

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    In Old English manuscripts, this letter usually took its insular form ᵹ . The [j] and [dʒ] pronunciations are sometimes written ġ in modern editions. Word-initially before another consonant letter, the pronunciation is always the velar fricative [ɣ]. Word-finally after i , it is always palatal [j].

  8. History of English - Wikipedia

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    About 10,000 French and Norman loan words entered Middle English, particularly terms associated with government, church, law, the military, fashion, and food. [20] See English language word origins and List of English words of French origin. Although English is a Germanic language, it has a deep connection to Romance languages. The roots of ...

  9. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The order of the letters of the alphabet is attested from the 14th century BC in the town of Ugarit on Syria's northern coast. [23] Tablets found there bear over one thousand cuneiform signs, but these signs are not Babylonian and there are only thirty distinct characters. About twelve of the tablets have the signs set out in alphabetic order.