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1. Rebus Principle

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   $$\OmegaR = \frac{NP}{N_T}$$
   A high $\Omega_R$ (approaching 1) indicates a highly phonetic system where most pictographic origins have been fully subsumed by their phonetic values. For example, early Egyptian hieroglyphs, while retaining many logograms, exhibited a high application of the rebus for writing determinatives and grammatical affixes Egyptology.
   Examples Across Writing Systems