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<p>A <b>writing system</b> is any conventional system for <a href="page.php?w=writing">representing a particular language</a> using a set of symbols (called a <b><i>script</i></b>), as well as the rules those symbols encode. The earliest of conventional writing systems appeared during the late 4th millennium&nbsp;BC. Throughout history, each independently invented writing system gradually emerged from a system of <a href="page.php?w=proto-writing">proto-writing</a>, where a small number of <a href="page.php?w=ideograph">ideograph</a>s were used</p><p>
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