Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called … 展开

Classical antiquity
The earliest known indication of shorthand systems is from the Parthenon in Ancient Greece, where a mid-4th century BC inscribed marble slab was found. This … 展开

Geometric and script-like systems
Shorthands that use simplified letterforms are sometimes termed stenographic shorthands, contrasting with alphabetic shorthands, below. Stenographic shorthands can be further differentiated by the target letter forms as … 展开

One of the most widely used forms of shorthand is still the Pitman shorthand method described above, which has been adapted for 15 languages. Although Pitman's method was extremely popular at first and is still commonly used, especially in the UK, in the U.S., its … 展开

• Chandler shorthand (Mary Chandler Atherton)
• Current Shorthand (Henry Sweet)
• Duployan shorthand (Émile Duployé)
• Eclectic shorthand (J.G. Cross) 展开

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• Breviograph 展开

• Keyscript Shorthand: keyscriptshorthand.com & keyscriptshorthand2.website3.me
• Media related to Shorthand at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of shorthand at Wiktionary 展开