Editing Punctuation (section)

==History==

The first writing systems were either [[Logogram|logographic]] or [[Syllabary|syllabic]]- for example, [[Written Chinese|Chinese]] and [[Maya script]]- which do not necessarily require punctuation, especially spacing. This is because the entire morpheme or word is typically clustered within a single glyph, so spacing does not help as much to distinguish where one word ends and the other starts.  Disambiguation and emphasis can easily be communicated without punctuation by employing a separate written form distinct from the spoken form of the language that uses slightly different phraseology. Even today, formal written modern English differs subtly from spoken English because not all emphasis and disambiguation is possible to convey in print, even with punctuation.

{{Donate}}