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Allama Iqbal Open University
MA Library and Information Science
Foundations of Librarianship
Course Code: 5500
Assignment # 1
Submitted to:
Abdul Samad Ansari
Submitted by:
Nooruddin Badruddin
Semester I, Spring 2011
Roll # AJ570236
Registration # 00-SKI-0345
Cell #: 0333-2153450, 0315-2153450
Answer 1: Trace the historical development of Alphabets along with a writing sample of Arabic and Urdu alphabet?
Alphabet is a symbolic or graphical or letter representation which has a unique sound in everyday language use. All writing including the alphabet is a way of recording language in visible form and giving it relative permanence. Writing is a powerful tool for transmitting a culture including history from generation to generation. It plays a critical role in the development and continuation of civilizations, with their elaborate technologies, economies, literature, ethical codes and values and other speculations, each with its own body of knowledge to be preserved and transmitted. Before writing was invented, communication used to happen through pictures and illustrations.
Logographers did great efforts to evolve and advance the cause of writing. By putting an emphasis on sound rather than pictorial representations, they made possible the writing of language units that cannot be represented easily through pictures, such as pronouns, prepositions, prefix and suffix. The sounds represented were sometimes syllables, in which instance the system is known as syllabary. In most cases the sounds were the elementary sounds of the language.
The Semitic Systems
All the alphabets in the world today, and all of those known to have existed in the past, are believed to be descended from a single writing system, Proto-Semitic, devised in the Syra-Palestine region in the first half of the second millennium B.C. that is between 2000 and 1500 B.C. it is this system and its many descendants which are known as the alphabet, and their history is one of the
MA Library and Information Science
Foundations of Librarianship
Course Code: 5500
Assignment # 1
Submitted to:
Abdul Samad Ansari
Submitted by:
Nooruddin Badruddin
Semester I, Spring 2011
Roll # AJ570236
Registration # 00-SKI-0345
Cell #: 0333-2153450, 0315-2153450
Answer 1: Trace the historical development of Alphabets along with a writing sample of Arabic and Urdu alphabet?
Alphabet is a symbolic or graphical or letter representation which has a unique sound in everyday language use. All writing including the alphabet is a way of recording language in visible form and giving it relative permanence. Writing is a powerful tool for transmitting a culture including history from generation to generation. It plays a critical role in the development and continuation of civilizations, with their elaborate technologies, economies, literature, ethical codes and values and other speculations, each with its own body of knowledge to be preserved and transmitted. Before writing was invented, communication used to happen through pictures and illustrations.
Logographers did great efforts to evolve and advance the cause of writing. By putting an emphasis on sound rather than pictorial representations, they made possible the writing of language units that cannot be represented easily through pictures, such as pronouns, prepositions, prefix and suffix. The sounds represented were sometimes syllables, in which instance the system is known as syllabary. In most cases the sounds were the elementary sounds of the language.
The Semitic Systems
All the alphabets in the world today, and all of those known to have existed in the past, are believed to be descended from a single writing system, Proto-Semitic, devised in the Syra-Palestine region in the first half of the second millennium B.C. that is between 2000 and 1500 B.C. it is this system and its many descendants which are known as the alphabet, and their history is one of the