Sentence examples for a writing system from inspiring English sources

"It may be a signing system, not a writing system.

Consonants plus vowels made a writing system that was both economical and unambiguous.

Development of a writing system: Like the Japanese and Vietnamese, Koreans adopted the Chinese writing system.

These levels of structure admit of several subdivisions, any one of which may be captured in a writing system.

He is considered to be the inventor of a writing system by touch that bears his name, the Braille system.

JOHN HENDERSON: A writing system still only partly deciphered adds a lot to the romantic appeal of the ancient Maya.

Although Korea has had its own language for several thousand years, it has had a writing system only since the mid-15th century, when Hangul was invented.

Sign languages, American Sign Language for example, do not have a written system.

So, it is not necessary to learn a written system before learning A.S.L. or any sign language.

Roughly speaking, if a character represents a meaningful unit, such as a morpheme or a word, the orthography is called a logographic writing system; if it represents a syllable, it is called a syllabic writing system; if a segment of a syllable, it is called a consonantal writing system or an unvocalized syllabary; and if a phoneme, it is called an alphabetic system.

The writer is a retired missionary who has developed a graphic writing system.