Recorded history
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Recorded history can be defined as history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language, whereas history is a more general term referring simply to information about the past.[1] It starts in the 4th millennium BC, with the invention of writing.
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[edit] Early languages
One of the marks of progress in early human civilizations was the development of the early written languages, which involved the construction of alphabets, logograms, and ideograms. Some early languages included the following (sorted alphabetically):
- Akkadian
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Armenian
- Avestan
- Aztec
- Bengali
- Brahmi
- Bugis
- Burmese
- Byblos
- Cherokee
- Chinese
- Coptic
- Cuneiform
- Cypriot
- Cyrillic
- Devanagari
- Egyptian
- Elamite
- Epi-Olmec
- Etruscan
- Futhark
- Ge'ez (Ethiopic)
- Georgian
- Glagolitic
- Gothic
- Grantha
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Gupta
- Gurmukhi
- Hebrew
- hPhags-pa
- Iberian scripts
- Indus Script
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Jurchen
- Kadamba
- Kalinga
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Kharosthi
- Khitan
- Khmer
- Korean
- Landa
- Latin
- Lepcha
- Linear A
- Linear B
- Luwian
- Malayalam
- Maya
- Meroïtic
- Mesoamerican Writing Systems
- Mixtec
- Modi
- Mongolian
- Nagari
- Naxi
- Nushu
- Ogham
- Old Hebrew
- Old Kannada
- Old Persian
- Oriya
- Oscan
- Pahlavi
- Phaistos Disc
- Phoenician
- Proto-Sinaitic
- Samaritan
- Sarada
- Sinhala
- South Arabian
- South Asian Writing Systems
- Sumerian
- Syriac
- Takri
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Thamudic
- Tibetan
- Tocharian
- Turkic Runes
- Ugaritic
- Venetic
- Yi Scripts
- Zapotec
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