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What do archaeologists call the basic unit in the Aztec and Maya system of writing?
Archaeologists refer to the basic unit in the Aztec and Maya system of writing as glyphs. These glyphs often represent sounds, words, or whole ideas in their respective writing systems.
What is the writing system of the ancient Egyptians called?
The ancient Egyptians had a form of pictorial writing called hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs were various pictures that stood for single letter sounds or the sounds of multiple letters put together.The name of the Ancient Egyptian writing system is called "hieroglyphics."These were pictographs, picture symbols that could represent letter sounds, words and phrases.Hieroglyphics.Hieroglyphics.
What do you call the words that have endings that sounds the same?
ryming words
What do you call the slant in your words when your writing in script?
slanted words?
What do you call pictures that represent words?
Pictograms. Pictographs. Rebus. Hieroglyphics.
How do you write sounds?
You use words call onomatopoeias. Those are words like bang, drip, crash, and boom.
What do you call a sentence made by writing a combination of words and pictures?
It is called a "rebus".
What do you call words with gh kn type sounds?
Words with 'gh' and 'kn' sounds are known as consonant clusters. The combination of 'gh' produces sounds like /f/ in words like "enough" or /g/ in words like "ghost." The 'kn' cluster typically produces the /n/ sound in words like "knight" or "knit."
What do you call a word that sounds like it is spelled?
The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to is called onomatopoeia.
How do you call comic's non-ballooned text mostly for actions and sounds?
Onomatopoeia - "The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to ."
How do people come up with names?
they think of the abc's and they go through the alphabet and put words together they use the abcs to make up sounds and call them words
Why did Egyptians use pictures instead of words?
The use of hieroglyphics is a very ancient way to visually record language. We are introduced to our modern alphabet at a very early age, and for us it seems odd that alphabets were not always the method of visually encoding language. Alphabets seem downright simplistic, but they are in fact very sophisticated systems. Imagine a time before any form of writing. Even the concept of visually encoding language might seem odd, useless or impossible. It must have been an amazing insight on the part of one or many people across cultures that there was a need to record words, and that a way to do it could be developed. I bet that a collection of dozens of abstract squiggles, meaningless on their own, (letters) would not have been the first thought on anyone's mind. Representations of real objects, and then perhaps representations of religious/cultural symbols would have been a more likely starting point. The history of the alphabet is quite interesting and thought-provoking. If you check this history, be sure to find out what linguists have to say about it, too. See links for more information.
