Recorded history
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Recorded history can be defined as history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language, whereas history is a more general term referring simply to information about the past.[1]
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[edit] Early languages
One of the marks of progress in early human civilizations was the development of the early written languages, which involved the construction of alphabets, logograms, and ideograms. Some early languages included the following (sorted alphabetically):
- Akkadian
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Armenian
- Avestan
- Aztec
- Bengali
- Brahmi
- Bugis
- Burmese
- Byblos
- Cherokee
- Chinese
- Coptic
- Cuneiform
- Cypriot
- Cyrillic alphabetCyrillic
- Devanagari
- Egyptian
- Elamite
- Epi-Olmec
- Etruscan
- Futhark
- Ge'ez (Ethiopic)
- Georgian
- Glagolitic
- Gothic
- Grantha
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Gupta
- Gurmukhi
- Hebrew
- hPhags-pa
- Iberian scripts
- Indus Script
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Jurchen
- Kadamba
- Kalinga
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Kharosthi
- Khitan
- Khmer
- Korean
- Landa
- Latin
- Lepcha
- Linear A
- Linear B
- Luwian
- Malayalam
- Maya
- Meroïtic
- Mesoamerican Writing Systems
- Mixtec
- Modi
- Mongolian
- Nagari
- Naxi
- Nushu
- Ogham
- Old Hebrew
- Old Kannada
- Old Persian
- Oriya
- Oscan
- Pahlavi
- Phaistos Disc
- Phoenician
- Proto-Sinaitic
- Samaritan
- Sarada
- Sinhala
- South Arabian
- South Asian Writing Systems
- Sumerian
- Syriac
- Takri
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Thamudic
- Tibetan
- Tocharian
- Turkic Runes
- Ugaritic
- Venetic
- Yi Scripts
- Zapotec
[edit] Importance of written language
Written languages allow historians to speculate on the entertainment, lifestyles, and cultures of peoples long after they have died. Thus, the knowledge and wisdom of past civilizations is made immortal and passed down many generations.
