Language and Writing

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Language and Writing

• By

Tamara
Hanna
Faith
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Language
Definition The faculty and ability, possessed by
normal human beings and by no other species, of
using a spoken or written utterance to represent
mental phenomenon or events
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Tower of Babel

• Dispersion of languages
• Origin of languages
• 1st known existence of multiple languages.
• This theory supports the Bible

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The Origin of Languages

• Encyclopedia
• The early speculations were based on imagining
  how speech sounds would first have become
  non-randomly associated with things and ideas.
• Pooh-Pooh, Yum-Yum, Ding-Dong (theories)
• This theory denies the Bible

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Writing

• Definition
• The communication of ideas by means of
  conventional symbols that are traced, incised,
  drawn, or otherwise formed on the surface of some
  material such as stone, metal, bamboo, papyrus,
  parchment, or paper.

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The Origin of Writing

• The Sumerians developed Cuneiform writing
• 1st known existence of writing
• This theory supports the Bible

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Bibliography

• The Encyclopedia Americana International Edition.
  Volume 29, p. 558. Grolier Incorporated. 1986
• The Encyclopedia Americana International Edition.
  Volume 16, p. 727. Grolier Incorporated. 1986.

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