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102 relations: Abjad, Alphabet, Alzheimer's disease, Anatolian hieroglyphs, Ancient Greek, Arabic alphabet, Aramaic, Aramaic alphabet, Aztec script, Bamum script, Bopomofo, Byte, Cangjie input method, China, Chinese character radicals, Chinese characters, Classical Chinese, Concept, Cretan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, Demotic (Egyptian), Determinative, Dongba symbols, East Asia, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian language, Emoji, English orthography, Finnish language, Frahang-i Pahlavig, French orthography, Grapheme, Greek language, Hangul, Hanja, Heterogram (linguistics), Hieratic, Hong Kong, Ideogram, Input method, ISO/IEC 8859, Italian language, Japanese language, Kana, Kanji, Korean language, Language processing in the brain, Latin, Laurent Sagart, Lexical decision task, ... Expand index (52 more) »
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- Logographic writing systems
Abjad
An abjad (أبجد), also abgad, is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving the vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader.
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.
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Anatolian hieroglyphs
Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet (الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.
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Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
Aramaic alphabet
The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian tribes throughout the Fertile Crescent.
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Aztec script
The Aztec or Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic signs which was used in central Mexico by the Nahua people in the Epiclassic and Post-classic periods.
Bamum script
The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon).
Bopomofo
Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao, or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages.
Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
Cangjie input method
The Cangjie input method (Tsang-chieh input method, sometimes called Changjie, Cang Jie, Changjei or Chongkit) is a system for entering Chinese characters into a computer using a standard computer keyboard.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chinese character radicals
A radical, or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Logogram and Chinese characters are graphemes and logographic writing systems.
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Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.
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Concept
A concept is defined as an abstract idea.
Cretan hieroglyphs
Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era.
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Cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.
Demotic (Egyptian)
Demotic (from δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta.
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Determinative
A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation.
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Dongba symbols
The Dongba, Tomba or Tompa or Mo-so symbols are a system of pictographic glyphs used by the ²dto¹mba (Bon priests) of the Naxi people in southern China.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.
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Egyptian language
The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian, is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt.
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Emoji
An emoji (plural emoji or emojis; 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.
English orthography
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
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Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
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Frahang-i Pahlavig
Frahang-ī Pahlavīg (Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭭𐭢 𐭯𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭩𐭪 "Pahlavi dictionary") is the title of an anonymous dictionary of mostly Aramaic logograms with Middle Persian translations (in Pahlavi script) and transliterations (in Pazend script).
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French orthography
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.
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Grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. Logogram and grapheme are graphemes.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Hangeul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
Hanja
Hanja, alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. Logogram and Hanja are logographic writing systems.
Heterogram (linguistics)
Heterogram (classical compound: "different" + "written") is a term used mostly in the philology of Akkadian, and Pahlavi texts containing borrowings from Sumerian and Aramaic respectively.
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Hieratic
Hieratic (priestly) is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.
Input method
An input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated IME) is an operating system component or program that enables users to generate characters not natively available on their input devices by using sequences of characters (or mouse operations) that are available to them.
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings.
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Kana
are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. Logogram and Kanji are logographic writing systems.
Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Language processing in the brain
In psycholinguistics, language processing refers to the way humans use words to communicate ideas and feelings, and how such communications are processed and understood.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Laurent Sagart
Laurent Sagart (born 1951) is a senior researcher at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO – UMR 8563) unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
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Lexical decision task
The lexical decision task (LDT) is a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments.
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Linear A
Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC.
Linear B
Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language.
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese
The List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese is a list of 7,000 commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese.
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List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters
The List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters is a list of 4762 commonly used Chinese characters and their standardized forms prescribed by the Hong Kong Education Bureau.
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Logo
A logo (abbreviation of logotype) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.
Maya script
Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered.
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.
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Middle Persian
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
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Middle school
A middle school, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school, is an educational stage between primary school and secondary school.
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Mixtec writing
Mixtec writing originated as a logographic writing system during the Post-Classic period in Mesoamerican history.
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Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.
Morphogram
A morphogram is the representation of a morpheme by a grapheme based solely on its meaning. Logogram and morphogram are graphemes and logographic writing systems.
Muslim conquest of Persia
The Muslim conquest of Persia, also called the Muslim conquest of Iran, the Arab conquest of Persia, or the Arab conquest of Iran, was a major military campaign undertaken by the Rashidun Caliphate between 632 and 654.
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Natural language
In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that occurs naturally in a human community by a process of use, repetition, and change without conscious planning or premeditation.
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Obstruent
An obstruent is a speech sound such as,, or that is formed by obstructing airflow.
Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.
Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
Pahlavi scripts
Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various Middle Iranian languages.
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Palatalization (phonetics)
In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.
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Persian alphabet
The Persian alphabet (translit), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language.
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Pharyngealization
Pharyngealization is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the pharynx or epiglottis is constricted during the articulation of the sound.
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Pictogram
A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
Plane (Unicode)
In the Unicode standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (216) code points.
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Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
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Rebus
A rebus is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases.
Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate grande école and grand établissement in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences.
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Semantics
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.
Sound change
A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language.
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Standard Form of National Characters
The Standard Form of National Characters or the Standard Typefaces for Chinese Characters is the standardized form of Chinese characters set by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Syllabary
In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.
Syllabogram
Syllabograms are graphemes used to write the syllables or morae of words.
Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Thai script
The Thai script (อักษรไทย) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand.
Tibetan script
The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from of Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti.
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication.
Variable-width encoding
A variable-width encoding is a type of character encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a character set (a repertoire of symbols) for representation, usually in a computer.
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Varieties of Chinese
There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
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William H. Baxter
William Hubbard Baxter III (born March 3, 1949) is an American linguist specializing in the history of the Chinese language and best known for his work on the reconstruction on Old Chinese.
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Wingdings
Wingdings is a series of dingbat fonts that render letters as a variety of symbols.
Word
A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible.
Writing system
A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language.
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Written Chinese
Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Logogram and Written Chinese are logographic writing systems.
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Written language
A written language is the representation of a language by means of writing.
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Written vernacular Chinese
Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China.
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Wubi method
The Wubizixing input method, often abbreviated to simply Wubi or Wubi Xing, is a Chinese character input method primarily for inputting simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese text on a computer.
See also
Graphemes
- Alphabets
- Ampersand
- At sign
- Chinese characters
- Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters
- Diacritics
- Glyph
- Glyphs
- Grapheme
- Hamza
- Hieroglyphs
- Letterform
- Logogram
- Mathematical symbols
- Mongolian numerals
- Morphogram
- Numeral system
- Phonogram (linguistics)
- Sawndip
- Th (digraph)
Logographic writing systems
- Chinese characters
- Chữ Hán
- Chữ Nôm
- Clerical script
- Cursive script (East Asia)
- Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters
- East Asian calligraphy
- Elamite cuneiform
- Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese
- Hanja
- Hieroglyphs
- History of writing in Vietnam
- Kanji
- Lango (app)
- List of Chinese–Japanese false friends
- Logogram
- Mesoamerican writing systems
- Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphs
- Morphogram
- Sawndip
- Seal script
- Semi-cursive script
- Sitelen Pona
- Sui script
- Taito (kanji)
- Toki Pona
- Written Chinese
References
Also known as Lexigraph, Lexigraphy, Logo-syllabic, Logoconsonant, Logoconsonantal, Logograms, Logograph, Logographic, Logographic script, Logographic system, Logographies, Logographs, Logography, Logophonetic, Logosyllabary, Logosyllabic, Logosyllabic writing, Logosyllable.