Abstract
ALL WRITING originated in primitive man's natural attempt to picture objects, ideas, and events, as exemplified in Amerindian pictographs. Out of this grew ideographic writing, in which pictures are employed to denote specific objects or ideas, and secondarily the sound complexes or words denoting these objects and ideas, as in Akkadian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and Chinese. The most natural development of this ideographic writing is in the direction of syllabic writing, in which ideograms denoting words of one syllable become, through the rebus principle, the signs for syllabic sounds in addition to being signs for objects and ideas. This is the line of development followed, for example, by cuneiform
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