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![Some of the pictorial signs used at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Calif.
[Courtesy of the Comite International Olympique]](https://web.archive.org/web/20100909063930im_/http://www.britannica.com/static/bps-static-content/20100820-1222/images/darwin/shared/spacer_htc.gif "Some of the pictorial signs used at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Calif.
[Courtesy of the Comite International Olympique]")
Some of the pictorial signs used at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Calif.[Credit: Courtesy of the Comite International Olympique]
Roman dog mosaic from the threshold of a house in Pompeii, “Cave canem” (“Beware …[Credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York]
Cuneiform tablet featuring a tally of sheep and goats, from Tello, southern Iraq.[Credit: © Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis]
Legal text of a loan contract, 99 bc (The John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Rylands …[Credit: Courtesy of The John Rylands University Library of Manchester]
System of human visual communication using signs or symbols associated by convention with units of language—meanings or sounds—and recorded on materials such as paper, stone, or clay.
Its precursor was pictography. Logography, in which symbols stand for individual words, typically develops from pictography. Logography requires thousands of symbols for all possible words and names. In phonographic systems, the symbol associated with a word also stands for similar- or identical-sounding words. Phonographic systems may evolve to the point where symbols represent syllables, constituting a syllabary. An alphabet provides symbols for all the consonants and vowels.
... (98 of 12268 words)Aspects of the topic writing are discussed in the following places at Britannica.
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Writing is a way of showing speech, or spoken language, with marks. People can make these marks on stone, paper, or a computer screen. People use writing to communicate with others.
The history and prehistory of writing are as long as the history of civilization itself. Indeed the development of communication by writing was a basic step in the advance of civilization (see Writing, Communication by).
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