WRITING Post-Test

Cuneiform symbols were written symbols developed by...

• Mesopotamians and Indians

• Egyptians and Arabics

• Sumerians and Akkadians

• Chinese and Koreans

An element of modern Chinese characters that hints at meaning.

• radical

• phonetic

______ is the system used to achieve the match between an alphabet to the sound system of the language it represents.

He called for a spelling reform in the 20th century.

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Bernard Shaw

• Noam Chomsky

• Edward Finnegan

Historically speaking, ______ differs from writing in that it/they represent concepts rather than words, of real-life objects - not of the words that represent those objects.

This word comes from the Latin root pictus and the Greek root graphein.

They were the technical geniuses of pre-Columbian Central America who developed intricate systems of drawings and symbols.

• Iranians

• Mesopotamians

• Sumerians

• Aztecs

Hieroglyphics, like Cuneiforms,follows the ______ writing system.

• Syllabic

• Logographic

• Alphabetic

As proven by modern Chinese characters, a logographic system of writing compensates for ______. (Clue: cite-site-sight; read-reed)

It refers to a set of graphic symbols, each of which represents a distinctive sound.

(Clue: There are Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serb, and Roman variations)