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Early forms of many written languages had no phonetic values. We're talking history here, so 'has ever existed' seems a gross oversimplification.
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Early forms of many written languages had no phonetic values. We're talking history here, so 'has ever existed' seems a gross oversimplification.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoIt isn't possible to produce a written text in purely ideograms for the obvious reason that there are no coherent linguistic utterances in which every word has some semantic content. We can be confident that what isn't possible has never been done. > Early forms of many written languages had no phonetic values. Such as...?