writing systems

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• The Rosetta Stone: How It Unlocked Egyptian Hieroglyphs
  The Rosetta Stone carries one decree in three scripts. Found in 1799, it let Jean-François Champollion decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822. Here is the story.
• The International Phonetic Alphabet
  A notation system that gives every speech sound one unambiguous symbol, used by dictionaries, language learners, and speech scientists.