The triangular indentations used for the script of Sumerians is called cuneiform.
The SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION developed cuneiform as a method of transcribing concepts.
The Sumerians were the first to create the first writing system. The exact person, I have no idea.
The Behistun Script
The development of cuneiform, one of the earliest writing systems, allowed scholars to access and interpret a wealth of information about the ancient Sumerians. This script, inscribed on clay tablets, recorded various aspects of Sumerian life, including administrative records, literature, legal codes, and religious texts. By studying these artifacts, scholars have been able to reconstruct Sumerian society, culture, and history, revealing insights into their governance, economy, and beliefs. Thus, cuneiform serves as a crucial key to understanding the complexity and achievements of one of the world's first civilizations.
Written Chinese symbols are logograms adopted from Oracle Bone Script. Chinese writing is on of the most widely adopted script systems in the world. Each adaptation of it has a different name and slightly different character variations. In Mandarin Chinese the characters are called hanzi.
cuneiform
Sumerians used reeds to write on clay tablets when they created cuneiform script. The reeds were shaped into a triangular point, which they pressed into wet clay to form the wedge-shaped characters of cuneiform.
The Sumerians
The Sumerians used a script called "Cuneiform" pronounced qew-nay-i-form. Cuneiform documents were impressed on wet clay by means of a blunt reed and the impressions left by the reed were wedge shaped, hence the name cuneiform from the Latin term cuneus, meaning "wedge").
Cuneiform script
The Sumerians were the first to devise a script. This is knew as the cuneiform script. This in the from of pictographs signs, symbols and pictures which denoted objects. Henry Rawlinson deciphered the Sumerian script......
Every script is called a script. Regardless of the genre, the script is still called the script.
The Sumerians.
When the Sumerians first developed their script, it was read from top to bottom. Around 3000 BCE they began reading from left to right and their characters rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Ancient Minoan Script is called Linear A.
I am pretty sure it is still called a script.
In films, the final draft of a screenplay is called the "shooting script." The equivalent for a play could be the rehearsal script.