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Subject: Re: Script origin and typology
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 16:48:06 -0700
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On 7/8/2024 4:26 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> PTD recycled an old, unpublished talk of his for a submission to
> Language Log:
> 
> Script origin and typology, part 1
> https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64775
> 
> Script origin and typology, part 2
> https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64822
> 
> Some interesting thoughts in there, e.g.:
> 
>    If, however, a language is not monosyllabic—as in, for instance,
>    Indo-European or Semitic or Uralic or Altaic—the chances are
>    rather less good that the picture put for one word would have the
>    same sound as another word or one very like it, as with the
>    Sumerian ti example. And that is why writing could get started
>    in Sumerian, in Chinese, in Maya, and probably in Dravidian; while
>    the best candidate for writing where it didn’t get started—the
>    Inca civilization—did not use a monosyllabic language, and so
>    came up with quipus for accounting, but not with writing.
> 


          has anyone  had  an exchange with PTD   lately?