Invention of Writing

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There are 5000 different languages but not all of them have writing forms.

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There are 4 types of writing : -pictographs -ideographs- - syllabary -alpha- syllabary

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Modern road signs are examples of pictographs

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Ideographic was the mean of reminders , but there were no writing literally

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Later syllabary appeared in Egypt , India and Japan

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The rules of writing hieroglyph were very difficult.

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In Phoenicia the system of writing was easier than in Egypt There were no vowels in their alphabet

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Greeks were the first who designated both vowels and consonants

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Chinese writing was similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs

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iN ancient rus writing had appeared in ix century

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The monks Cyril and Methodius

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Glagolitic was widely used in Bulgaria , in Moravia but occasionally in ancient Rus

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Cyrillic alphabet

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Peter I introduced the civil font

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Modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters : 9 vowels and 24 consonants