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The History of Handwriting |
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Ancient
Communication initiated in the ancient days, only in the verbal form adapting cultural rituals and generations passing stories from one to another. Written communication came into existence in the form of pictorial inscriptions to standard pictorial presentations. Mohan-jo-daro & Harrapan civilization adapted the pictorial form at its best in their daily use through Seals and Mudras.
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Writing is a form of simple coded symbols which are used by a specific community to interact with each other through repeated use, generally known as “language”.
Available records suggest three major cultural developments in writings namely Sumerian-cuneiform, Egyptian- hieroglyphs, Chinese-kanji.
Pictorial representation later became ideographs evolving themselves beyond the original drawings, representing ideas. The ideographs were written from top to bottom, left to right, or right to left.
Phonetics were the combination of various shorter ideographs.
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Modern
The use of ink can be traced back to the Egyptians using “Papyrus and Reed Brush” date back to 2000 B.C. Further simplified in 1500 B.C. for Priestly Writing and more widely used around 500 B.C. being known as script of people.
22 Phonetically based symbols were accepted around 1500 B.C. which spread under Alexander The Great in his era of expansion that is 500 B.C. to as far as Egypt, Persia and India.
The rise of the Roman Empire in 2nd century BC saw the adaptation of 23 letter, alphabets across the borders of England, North Africa, Europe, and Persian Gulf.
With the width of the Alphabets being condensed by 400 AD the Roman script came into existence and widely excepted in both lower and upper case |
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