Sequoia or Sequoyah invented a syllabary {Cherokee alphabet} in North Carolina [1820].
Easter Island had logograms {Easter Island alphabet}.
Hittite language had hieroglyphic logograms {Hieroglyphic Hittite}.
In Egypt [-3000], ideograph logograms {hieroglyphics, alphabet} were for consonants.
In Indus Valley [-2200], alphabet {Indus Valley alphabet} had logograms, not yet deciphered.
In Mexico, alphabet had logograms {Mayan glyphs}.
In Elam, alphabet had logograms {proto-Elamite alphabet}.
In south Mexico, Zapotec language had logograms {Zapotec alphabet}.
In Korea [1446], king Sejong invented script {han'gul}.
Chinese can use cursive ideography {hiragana}.
Japanese can use formal syllable-writing system {kana}.
Japanese can use syllable-writing system {kana majiri}. Because it comes from hiragana, Chinese-ideogram translations use kana majiri.
Japanese syllable-writing systems {kanji} can have logograms.
Japanese syllable-writing system {katakana}, derived from Chinese ideograms, is for official documents and science.
6-Linguistics-Writing-Alphabet
Outline of Knowledge Database Home Page
Description of Outline of Knowledge Database
Date Modified: 2022.0225