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Posted: 22 Jun 2021

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Sound, Symbols & Script

Sound, Symbols & Script
“four score and seven years ago”


After DeFrancis, 1989


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 Dinesh
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Scripts represent sounds with varying degrees of accuracy. Ten scripts have been used to write “four score and seven years ago” (the opening words of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address). At the top is the acoustic wave graph of the particular speaker (a Chinese-American linguist). This is followed by (1) the transcription in the international Phonetic Alphabet; (2) the English spelling; (3) the Russian alphabetic transcription; (4) the Bengali alphabetic version, with transcription (5) the Korean Hangul version, with transcription (6) Egyptian Hieroglyphic version (Ptolemic Period), with transcription (7) the Arabic consonantal version, with transcription (8)the Japanese syllabic version, with transcription; (9) the cuneiform syllabic version, with transcription; (1) the Chinese Syllabic version, with Pinyin transcription.
3 years ago.
 Dinesh
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THE STORY OF WRITING
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