Language and writing belong to the intangible cultural heritage of every country, and therefore everyone should be proud of their mother tongue. It is part of our culture, identity, past, present and, we believe, future. How, where and when was writing created?  At first glance, it may seem that these questions can be answered relatively easily, but the opposite is true. It depends on what we consider scripture. Our sixth graders talked about this topic with MsKS director, Mrs Šeniglová as part of activities in the E4L Erasmus+ project. During the month of books, she prepared a topic for them about language and writing. Together they devoted themselves to the chronological development of language and writing, from the earliest time to the present. The lecture was enriched with illustrative visual examples of individual types of writing, materials and writing supplies. The students learned the answers to the questions in the introduction. As for the oldest document of symbolic notation, the oldest objects of this type include the so-called Bone from Lebombo (Lebombo bone) 45-43,000 years old found in South Africa and the so-called "The bone from Ishango" (Ishango bone) is roughly 20,000 years old and found in the territory of today's Congo. Among the world's unique in this respect is the so-called Wolf radius, a bone with notches approximately 30,000 years old found in 1936 in Moravian Věstonice. Today, thanks to the discoveries of the last 60 years or so, we know that the creation of writing was a polygenetic (from the Greek poly = many) phenomena. Writing arose independently in at least three or four places: in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Central America. Pupils also saw the shapes of ancient fonts. During the lecture, they also addressed the topic of the development of Slovak writing, from Cyrillic, and Glagolitic to the current form of Slovak writing. They also talked about special types of writing - for the blind, about sign language for the deaf and mute, and about their importance for disabled people. In the end, they learned that pictorial writing also tells us a lot, e.g. pictograms or today's smileys - we know exactly what the sender wanted to tell us. :D

CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
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CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
CLM Development of language and writing
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