¡Birth of a character
The clay board of Sumer
Human carved pictorial symbol. to a clay tablet gradually. The sharp reed
was used as a
tool of a note.
The oldest a clay tablet is found in Uruk (Iraq) of the Euphrates River
lower stream.
around the B.C. 40th century. This area is an area where Mesopotamian civilization
prospered.
It was written for accounts(Economy was already complicated those days.),
the
complicated pictorial symbol which also amounts to 1500 sorts was used, and
it
corresponded to the Sumer language.
£An early pictorial symbol results in pronunciation,
after the pictorial symbol showed the object
itself and understands it.
iŠAn example's pictorial symbol and pronunciation are fictitious.)
Abstraction of a character
Soon, "complicated" pictorial symbols were
abstracted.
£The abstracted pictorial symbol results in
pronunciation directly.
iŠAn example's pictorial symbol and pronunciation are fictitious.)
Various expression
Moreover, a new means was needed in order to tell a more detailed matter.
Therefore, they considered how to write different things by one pictorial
symbol.
£A related word is connected to a pictorial
symbol
Moreover, it made it possible to combine a pictorial symbol.
£An expressional variation increases by adding
a meaning.
However, only those who remember the rule can read information.
ŠA rule here means remembering not rules of present-day reading and writing
but many rules
(regularity) as shown in the upper figure.
Sound mark presents a systematic method
Then, this Sound mark presents a systematic method was invented.
Although this is somewhat puzzling, It makes correspond pronunciation to
a symbol
character and combining systematic . In short, the pictorial symbol produced
until now was
made into the symbolic "sign", and giving pronunciation and systematized
.
£An example when it compares to the alphabet
Birth of a character
In Mesopotamian civilization, "Sumer character" which
is first character in the history of
man was developed in this way around B.C. 3500.( There are various views)
The character
could be read whoever can understand the Sumer language as spoken language.
The
character acquired popularity and the use area spread from the Indus valley
to the Nile
River valley. Moreover, all the characters which existed until now have the
opinion that this
is origin.
The history of a character begins from here. Development of
the first character
tends to be misunderstood if made by evolution. However, it was born suddenly
as
needed .
£Sumer character
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