INVENTION OF WRITING

WRITTEN LANGUAGES

“Images” or signs for sounds permanently. First signs, pictograms or petroglyphs for each idea, object or fact expressed with a word unifying them by meanings that were combined (Egypt, Mesopotamia), later the signs were reduced and simplified; then by sounds or phonic unit, which also contributed to further reduce the signs; then the representation of the phonemes or sounds that make up the words is used; Later, hieroglyphic signs were created in Egypt, which were the source of the consonant alphabet, which gave rise to many European languages. Writing achieved communication between people distant in space and time, and through translation, with other languages, cultures and other peoples