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because a society has been able to write what they can speak so they feel that it is of the upmost importance

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What language does not have punctuation?

There is no widely known language that completely lacks punctuation. Punctuation serves important functions in written communication, such as indicating sentence structure and clarifying meaning, so it is a key component of most written languages.


How many languages can harry pottery translate?

Harry Potter is a fictional character, so he does not translate languages. However, the books written by J.K. Rowling have been translated into 80 languages, making them accessible to a wide international audience.


How many dead languages are there?

Hard to know. Most languages are spoken and are never written. When languages like that disappear, they leave no trace. Another reason it is hard to know is that languages change all the time and it is tricky trying to figure out when they have changed into a new language. Usually we know when a written language becomes so different from its spoken counterpart that the language represented by the written language has died. Latin was still used as a written language long after people only spoke the languages it had morphed into--the Romance languages of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and so on. A similar process happened when Old English morphed into Middle English: people were still writing Old English after it was really a dead language.


What is the difference between written and spoken language?

A written language is written, spoken is spoken. Ogham is written while Gaelic is spoken. We speak English and write Latin. Look up ancient scripts on internet. There is awesome material on written language. Some spoken languages arent written (like tribal languages) ____ Generally, written language is more formal than speech. Most languages are both written and spoken however there are some languages that are one or the other. For example, Braille is a type of written language which isn't spoken. On the other hand there are some tribal languages which have no alphabet or written form so they are called spoken languages.


Which is the the world's second oldest language?

We don't know. Simply because the first languages were never written down and were spoken-only languages, before mankind discovered the ability to write.The oldest written text discovered so far dates back 5,000 years, and is written in Sumerian. The language of Ancient Sumer.The second oldest (we think) is Sanskrit.However, they may not be factually correct because, as stated above, not all languages were written down.

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How did the Incas start their civilization?

They actually had no written language so they made a civilization of language not written language


Why were the Aztecs god so important to their civilization?

because they were just important.


Why do you think Mesopotamia was where early civilization started?

So far as we know, no civilizations predated Mesopotamian civilization. Experts reached the conclusion after years of studying the languages and the ruins.


Why were river valleys so important in mesopotamian civilization?

they were so important because they helped grow civilizations


Why was writing so important to the civilizations?

A civilization without any written language would be at a loss. Its ability to communicate and record anything would be greatly hindered.


Why is it important that scientists create new inventions .?

its important so we can keep civilization and technology improving


Why are laws important within a civilization?

So we can tell the 'civilized' from the 'uncivilized'.


Why is Egypt's civilization so important?

Because it was interested in death and dying.


What language does not have punctuation?

There is no widely known language that completely lacks punctuation. Punctuation serves important functions in written communication, such as indicating sentence structure and clarifying meaning, so it is a key component of most written languages.


Why were the cenotes of mexico so important to the ancient Maya civilization?

That is where they believed the Gods lived


Why is the environment is so important to the civilization of Egyptian?

The Egyptians know that lots of their history is and/or was in the enviroment.


Why was the ability to produce an agricultural surplus so important to the development of civilization?

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