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AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Digital Genres Two (1358 words) |
 | Logosyllabic writing seems to have been general; alphabetic writing seems to have originated from a single source. |
| Logosyllabic texts cite witness lists, which were authenticated with seals (for those who had them) or fingernail-imprints. |
| The ancestors of the autographically-signed deed were stamp-sealed Aramaic texts, mediating the Egyptian logosyllabic deeds and the Aramaic autographically-signed deed. |
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| An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. |
| There are other systems of writing such as logosyllabic writing, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word or a syllable or places the word within a category, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable. |
| The etymology of the word "alphabet" itself comes to Middle English from the Late Latin Alphabetum which in turn originates from the Ancient Greek Alphabetos, from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. |
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