Namely, most human language feature four skills, divided into productive skills and receptive skills.
- Productive skills: speaking and writing.
- Receptive skills: listening and reading.
For a long time, human languages only featured one productive skill, speaking, and one receptive skill, listening. Writing and reading would appear at a later time within the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia (who invented the cuneiform writing system) and ancient Egypt (who developed hieroglyphic and demotic writing systems). Even today, many human groups living in isolated and remote areas have not developed writing and reading, relying solely on speaking and listening and on oral tradition (passing down the history of the group from one generation to the next) for their communication needs.
Below are the characters, based over your assigned reading you get to decide which these were the minor/major just because it wont help if i just hand over the answer although they are in order of most important/major to least sooo - thats ur answer haha :
Buck
Spitz
Curly
Dave
Sol-leks
Billie
Joe
Pike
Dub
Dolly
Skeet
Lone wolf
Judge Miller
Manuel
Francois
Perrault
Hal
Charles
Mercedes
John Thornton
Pete
Hans
Burton
Matthewson
Jim O'Brien
Yeehats
