onomotopeia
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.
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.
ryming words
slanted words?
Pictograms. Pictographs. Rebus. Hieroglyphics.
You use words call onomatopoeias. Those are words like bang, drip, crash, and boom.
It is called a "rebus".
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."
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.
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 ."
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
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.