![]() written correspondence) and stored over time (e.g. While not all languages use a writing system, those that do can complement and extend capacities of spoken language by creating durable forms of language that can be transmitted across space (e.g. Writing systems are not themselves human languages (with the debatable exception of computer languages) they are a means of rendering language into a form that can be reconstructed by other humans separated by time and/or space. Writing is a medium of human communication which involves the representation of a language through a system of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols. The Rosetta Stone, with writing in three different scripts, was instrumental in deciphering Ancient Egyptian.
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