logographic

• “This system he called logographic printing, -- logographic being a combination of two Greek words signifying word-writing.”

  Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money

• “The perfect book or speech obeys in every respect the pure and merciless laws of what has been called logographic necessity.”

  Archive 2005-06-12

• “Such writing is "logographic" (symbols for words), and doesn't give the reader information on how to speak it, which is itself a great benefit, for then even people who speak different languages can utilize the same writing system and be able to communicate via it.”

  Scientific Blogging

• “Displays on alphabetic and logographic writing systems.”

  The Washington Post: Museums

• “Compare for example, our alphabetic scripts against the logographic picture style of the Chinese.”

  The History Of Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News

• “Thus Sumerian logographic signs, if used in Akkadian, would not convey the same exact meaning, while the same sign could, depending upon context, mean different words, a linguistic trait known as polyvalency.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Whisperers

• “Omniglot is an interesting site about writing systems, which it classifies in alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, and alternative systems describing real and fictitious languages.”

  Reflective Surface - Omniglot

• “What is a logographic or non-logographic writing system?”

  languagehat.com: Q BEFORE U.

• “Of the languages I know written in non-logographic writing systems, English has by far the most difficult spelling.”

  languagehat.com: Q BEFORE U.

• “The San Andrés researchers believe these symbols represent words or ideas and reflect the first stages of logographic writing.”

  Earliest Mesoamerican Writing?

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