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Demotic Writing System

Status: 🌱

Updated: July 26 2022

Category: Information Theory, Technology of Writing, Description

650 BC

Devised specifically to facilitate writing on papyrus.

With the Demotic writing system, the number of signs denoting sounds decreased and signs denoting one meaningful concept increased dramatically.

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