It is very interesting to study about the history of writing. People are using language from centuries but there are vast difference between the people writing today and people write centuries ago. According to the time the writing pattern or system has taken different changes.Earlier the writing was pictographic or ideographic but later it is used marks to represent the sounds of words in oral language.The changes occur due to the difficulties faced by the writer during the process of their writing.As an instance, earlier writing had to follow the pictographic system which makes writer to remember many different symbols.Thus the system takes change.
Again there arise a problem of the spelling of the word as it sound different. It is because in most of the words the pronunciation of the word and it's spelling is very different.When they try to make every word to be spelled the way it sounds again there comes the problem with the reading. Thus there comes the introduction of current system as the good compromise.
I remember in my mother tongue there are 11 different types of writing systems which comes one after another.But every system is still there. They do not replace the style but there comes as a new style.The recent style of writing is far developed than the earlier one, but still the writing experts want to make all those pattern alive thus they are using them.It is not allow to the writer to mix up two patterns in search of finding easy style.I mean if you want to use the recent style of writing, you can use but if you try to mix them then it will not be considered as an academic writing.It is true that very less people are there who use the oldest style but anyway all the styles are existed and non of them are replaced by other.
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11 different types of writing in your L1, not or in history? That's amazing. Do you have the standard form that you use officially?
ReplyDeleteYes we of standard form of writing as the recent writing pattern and that is called "Ranjana LiPi"
ReplyDeletebut still writing experts use all the patterns of writing.