Ancient languages

The Sumerian language was developed in ancient Mesopotamia and is the oldest known written language.

an Alphabet for my blog Alphabet 1

Aramaic (ארמית, Arāmît): The Aramaic alphabet was adaptaed from the Phoenician alphabet during the 8th century BC and was used to write the Aramaic language until about 600 AD. The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script. (...)

Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

Chapter 3 - The First Writing, Story of The World Today we read chapter 3 which was a short chapter on the earliest people to use writings, i.e. the Egyptians and Sumerians. The girls then cut out the relevant lapbooking piece from The Chronicles of the Earth blog. They had to write something in both hieroglyphs and cuneiform into a little fold over matchbook. I printed out the heiroglyph alphabet from here Heiroglyph Chart and each girl then wrote something for the other person to decipher…

Description Revamped my Trucian alphabets. It's much more detailed and easy to understand, now; I'm thinking I might change/add a few things, though. A few interesting notes: Before the invention of writing utensils, Trucians wrote by either scratching messages into wooden tablets with their claws or by dipping their claws into colored dyes. Trucians write top-bottom, left-right. The Trucian alphabet has no lower-case letters. The Trucian higher-number system (#'s 9+) operates through the…

Runes

Perhaps not as well-known as other grimoires, the Galdrabok, an Icelandic ‘book of magic’, is one of the most important surviving documents for the practices and understanding of occult practices in Iceland in the late Medieval era. It offers a unique insight into the various elements that contributed to a national magical tradition in Iceland at the time of its compilation.

A modified version of the Hieroglyphic chart from Group. It includes a description of the character.

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