Sentence examples for a system of writing from inspiring English sources

At this time the Egyptians had already developed a system of writing.

The Mons gave the Burmese an artistic and literary tradition and a system of writing.

Familiar with writing in Arabic script from his contact with the Fulani and Hausa peoples, Njoya in about 1895 invented a system of writing with 510 pictographic characters.

The pre-Spanish Philippines possessed a system of writing similar to Arabic, and it was not uncommon for adults to know how to read and write.

They rapidly assimilated much of this civilization, and the Japanese scribes adopted Chinese characters as a system of writing, although an alphabet (if one had been available to them) would have been infinitely better suited to the Japanese language.

Cherokee was one of the first American Indian languages to have a system of writing devised for it a syllabary, so called because each of the graphic symbols represents a syllable.

Because the defendant could file an answer, a system of written pleadings developed.

They will seek a constitutional amendment to replace the tax code with a single fixed rate, ending a system of write-offs — including corporate loopholes and mortgage interest deductions — enjoyed by millions.

In 1955, Mr. Zhou, whose hobby was linguistics, was asked during a Beijing conference to lead a group creating a standardized system of writing Chinese phonetically with Roman letters.

The designers of GR had greater ambitions: their aim was complete reform of the script, using GR as a practical system of writing.

While the school relies primarily on a system of evaluations written by faculty, it does record grades on transcripts for purposes such as graduate school admissions.