Before completing this assignment, read textbook chapter 1. This assignment will be impossible to do well if you don’t do the reading first.
In prior decades, there was a focus on promotion of literacy to people groups whose languages may not have had (current) writing systems. But mere existance of literacy is not enough, essential materials must be translated, and importantly, digitized to be made available to people who could benefit.
Browse the following site.
Pick out at least three languages whose writing systems intrigue you. Do some internet research to answer the following questions for each of your languages.
1. Is the writing system an alphabet?
a. If so, it is an abjad?
b. Is so, do vowels have diacritics?
2. Is the writing system a syllabary?
a. If so is it a abugida/alphasyllabary?
b. If so, is it syllabary?
3. Is the writing system a logographic system?
4. Is the writing system a different kind/hybrid system?