The
development of writing
Writing is the recording of
thoughts by graphic means. That is possible both without referring to speech
(with symbols or prewriting[1])
or with marking speech sounds (phonetic scripts). As it is generally known, the
history of writing is a monotonous development from the complicated towards the
simple, from pictorial hieroglyphs towards linear letters. However facts
contradict this explanation, for in writing systems which have survived
undisturbed, we notice the increase of the number of characters, or more
precisely of hieroglyphs.
Studying the beginnings of
any writing system, we find no convincing proof for how writing begun. On the
basis of the relics, every nation seems to have obtained the idea of writing
ready to use, and the scribes have not improved the principles of writing
through the ages, they have only made its application more complicated. With an
extrapolation backwards from these facts, we get an ancient writing that was
simpler and far more phonetic than it has ever been thought (Pope/1966).
It must be stated, that the
system, form and technology of that deducible ancient writing resemble those of
Székely runic script.
General progress had been
furthered by the creation of new writing systems on the ruins of old ones and
making them widespread, but language and writing technology also played
decisive roles. For existing writing systems certify that it was not important
for every nation to develop a complete and advanced phonetic marking system.
Due to Chinese language consisting of one-syllable words, Chinese script
remained word-writing. Japanese with its regular sound arrangement caused
Japanese writing to remain a syllable-writing. Also for linguistic reasons,
Semitic scripts have not attained the independent, regular marking of vowels.
Inflectional languages with irregular sound arrangement, like Hungarian, had to
add phonetic elements to the ideographic root, and that gave rise to real
letter-writing early.
Several conditions were
necessary for the development of linear graphic forms as well. Farmers living
at permanent settlements could also use stone and clay for writing, and these
writing materials made the formation of even the most varied sign-forms
possible.
However equestrian nomads
were fairly restricted by the fact that the wood they had available as primary
writing material was splintery, therefore they could use only simple linear
characters. It follows from the foregoing that the greatest prospect to create
a linear and phonetic writing was possessed by an equestrian people with an
inflectional language and a founded state, such as the Hurrian in
North-Mesopotamia or the Hungarians at the time the steppe was being populated.
These theoretical views in
themselves would not prove the prominence of such a "migratory "
writing - not even if we know that thousands-of-years-old writing culture
carved in wood had been lost without any trace because of the decay of wood.
However, based on some strikingly early relics similar to Székely runes,
however, we can presume that a linear and phonetic "migratory"
writing similar to Hungarian runes existed in about 4000 BC, somewhere between
[1] Prewriting is a group of symbols with
precisely defined meanings, such as wooden grave-posts, religions, state
symbols, coat of arms, world models, or the symbolic system used by potters or
on painted eggs.
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