1. Origins of Written Language By Lorette Mann-Dale 2016
Alice Video

2. “Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience, and written words are the symbols of spoken words.”
Aristotle—On Interpretation

3. Abount 5000 years ago, archaeologist found evidence of the first known written language. The Mediterranean people of Sumer invented an phonetic writing system using an alphabet.
Sumerian stories video
A picture representing a sound is an alphabet. The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. The letters are called alpha and beta. Alphabet.

4. Cuneiform BCE means before common era, formerly know as BC.
The year was around 2800 BCE.
BCE means before common era, formerly know as BC.
ACE means after common era, formerly know as AD.
Extra Help Video on history of writing

5. Phoentic writing systems
Modern people began drawing pictures to communicate about 40,000 years ago.
Archeologist have found petroglyphs and pictographs in caves and rock faces.
Petroglyphs - carvings into stone surfaces
Pictographs - rock and cave paintings
Phoentic writing systems
Alphabets grew from
Pictograms - word signs the meant a single concept
Ideograms - sound signs that meant a single sound (phonetic)
Young Explores video

6. Other writing systems developed
independently in other parts of the world.

7. Olmecs in ancient Mexico around 400 bce invented a written system that developed into the Maya glyphs used around ce.
North China by 1200 bce developed a system that was the precursor of modern Chinese characters.

8. Egyptians invented three scripts: hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic
Egyptians invented three scripts: hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic. These scripts were used by Egyptians for thousands of years.
The History of the Alphabet
Video

10. Go to https://asd-hs.wikispaces.com/Alphabet+Evolution
for animation of alphabet evolutions

13. http://slideplayer.com/slide/8486658/ Video of making parchment.
Video of making papyrus paper

14. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoqavHDlKZ0

15. History of the Alphabet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NrTrBzC6dk
Origins of Written Language
History of the Alphabet
Origins of Language