Component-I (A) – Personal Details
Component-I (A) – Personal details: Prof. P. Bhaskar Reddy Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. Prof. P. Bhaskar Reddy Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati . & Dr. K. Muniratnam Director i/c, Epigraphy, ASI, Mysore. Prof. P. Bhaskar Reddy Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. Prof. V. Sakunthalamma Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. 1 Component-I (B) – Description of module: Subject Name Indian Culture Paper Name Indian Epigraphy Module Name/Title History of Writing Module Id IC / IEP / 06 Knowledge of the prehistoric man, Material culture, Pre requisites Ancient world civilizations, communication and writing system To know about the communication system in the Objectives prehistoric world, Origin and development of writing in Ancient civilizations and Indian Subcontinent Writing / Cuneiform / Hieroglyphs / Indus script / Keywords Pictographs / Ideography / Alphabet E-text (Quadrant-I) : 1. Introduction: Writing may be thought of a set of commonly accepted graphic signs used to represent communication, historical writing a set of signs which represents a spoken language. Thus, a writing system is a set of visible or tactile signs used to represent units of language in a systematic way. True writing is the content of a linguistic utterance encoded so that the other reader can reconstruct, with a fair degree of accuracy, the exact nature of written down, is later development. The history of writing instruments by which humans have recorded and conveyed thoughts, feelings and grocery lists is, in some ways, the history of civilization itself. In past centuries, scientists had used writing as one of the "markers" of civilization. While it is true that writing systems appear to develop in agricultural and urban cultures, by no means it is a requirement for civilization.
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