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Symbols for the recording of language in a visible form. The first writing system was cuneiform, which emerged among the Sumerians towards the end of the 4th millennium BC; however it was followed closely by the appearance of writing in Egypt and the Indus valley, and since then writing has appeared independently a number of times, associated with various civilizations.

Writing that blends meaning and orthography is called constrained writing.

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