1. Lecturer: Mr. Hong Kiseng
Students:
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1. Mr. Leang Channy
2. Miss Seng Saksreyney
3. Mr. Pha Rakim
4. Miss Phien Davy

2. 1. Communication across Time and Space?
2. Morphemic and Phonetic Script
3. Chinese Script – A Morphemic System
4. Roman Script – An Alphabetic System
5. Allographs
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3.  Do you know any country has no writing
system?
 Can you develop one nation without written
language?
 How can you study a history of one country?
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4.  Some societies have no writing system and
no society has developed a written language
and only subsequently decided to transmit
the utterances orally.
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5.  Writing has played an important part in the
development of society.
 Our society requires communication to be
made across space and time.
 Writing is allowing you to study the subject
of language without having to travel to a
particular place at a particular time.
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 Rival means of communication or bridging
space and time (TV, Phone, Tape recorder,
or Video…), but writing still develops.

7. The written representation of an object, of a
concept, of an action, and so on may be a
direct representation of the object itself or a
representation of the word that represents
the object.
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8.  Morphemic are the characters or graphs <1>
and <5> represent a concept directly.
 Phonetic are the written words <one> and
<five> or symbols of symbols represent the
sounds that represent the concept.
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<Seven> is generally called Phonetic systems
but <Seven> /sevәn/ is called an Alphabetic
system.
Alphabetic are character for each sound
segment or symbols represent individual
speech sounds.

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 Syllabic refer to symbols represent syllables.
(Mostly, in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
symbols)
 好 吃  好吃
Hǎo Chī  Hǎo chī
Good Eat  Delicious
 好 看  好看
Hǎo Kàn  Hǎo kàn
Good Look  Attractive

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13.  The writing system that we use came to us
from the Middle East by way of the Greeks
and the Romans.
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15.  Allograph is a member of grapheme or the
variant forms of a written character (grapheme
is a fundamental unit in a written language: alphabet,
punctuation, number, signature, and any other individual
symbol in a writing system).
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16.  A and a are Allographs of the grapheme A in
that replacing them does not alter the
meaning of the word, as calm, CALM and
cAlm, except oddness.
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17.  a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?,
?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that
of the letter without the diacritic.
 a word made by putting together parts of
other words; motel, brunch, guesstimate.
 conforming to the rules of a language.
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