World History- Written Languages

Latin

The language of ancient Rome and its empire, widely used historically as a language of scholarship and administration.

Chinese

Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and some other Asian languages.

Cuneiform

Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.

Pictograms

A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.

Hieroglyphics

A stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems.

Phoenician Alphabet

The Phoenician alphabet consists of 22 letters, which formed our modern day alphabet. It was used by the civilization of Phoenicia.