SHARMAINE LOSBAÑES BS CRIM 3-CHARLIE

Different types Writing System

The five types of writing system are: logosyllabary, syllabary, abjad; alphabet; and abugida.
While some or all of the modern-day West African syllabaries may have come about by
stimulus diffusion, this is unlikely in the extreme for syllabaries like the Caroline Islands and
the Alaska. The first alphabet was that for Greek, and the Greek alphabet influenced
Western Civilization. The names of the first two Greek letters, alpha and beta, provide the
word alphabet. Abjad is an Arabic word containing the first four letters of the Arabic script.
In an abugida, each letter represents a consonant followed by the vowel /a/or an individual
vowel. The branch of scholarship that has been concerned with writing systems is philology,
the study of texts in all their complexity.