REIS, Maria Ivone dos.; FEITOSA, Maria do Socorro.
Résumé:
The first attempt at writing, precisely the most primitive, and the one whose graphic signs represent objects, the so-called pictographic writing. The characters are the pictograms; species of drawings that approximate the image of the represented objects. Later, these graphic symbols ceased to have such a function, that is, they stopped imitating the objects represented to become conventions, which distinguished them in each country. For example: In Egypt, the pictogram corresponds to these writing systems concerned with directly registering the meaning of words and not their sound aspect. The first attempt in this direction was made by the Egyptians using ideograms or logograms with phonetic value. Each ideogram represented the sound segments of the consonant's sound value within the word. Thus, the syllabic lexical writing was born. According to REGO (1994). In this way, it is understood, because in alphabetic writing, the letters represent the minimum units of the word, which are the phonemes.
