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  2. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    In logographic writing systems, glyphs represent words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful) rather than phonetic elements. No logographic script is composed solely of logograms. All contain graphemes that represent phonetic (sound-based) elements as well.

  3. Pictogram - Wikipedia

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    A pictographic traffic sign (top) warning motorists of horses and riders. A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto [1]) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object. Pictograms are used in systems of writing and visual communication.

  4. List of constructed scripts - Wikipedia

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    Khitan large script: Kitl: 920: by order of Abaoji: Largely undeciphered logographic script for the Khitan language. Khitan small script: Kits: ca. 924: Yelü Diela: Partially deciphered logographic script with phonetic elements for Khitan: Khom: 1924: Ong Kommandam: Semi-syllabary used for secret communication among dissidents in French Laos ...

  5. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Standard Script is main traditional script used today. Japanese writing evolved from Chinese script and Chinese characters, called kanji, or ideograms, were adopted to represent Japanese words and grammar. [24] Kanji were simplified to create two other scripts, called hiragana and katakana. Hiragana is the more widely used script in Japan today ...

  6. Glossary of computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    Computer-rendered content inserted into the user's view of the real world. [3]: 917 AZDO Approaching zero driver overhead, a set of techniques aimed at reducing the CPU overhead in preparing and submitting rendering commands in the OpenGL pipeline. A compromise between the traditional GL API and other high-performance low-level rendering APIs. [5]

  7. Linear A - Wikipedia

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    Evans named the script "Linear" because its characters consisted simply of lines inscribed in clay, in contrast to the more pictographic characters in Cretan hieroglyphs that were used during the same period. [3] Linear A belongs to a group of scripts that evolved independently of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian systems.

  8. Ojibwe writing systems - Wikipedia

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    The term itself: "Anishinaabewibii'iganan", simply means Ojibwe/Anishinaabe or "Indian" writings and can encompass a far larger meaning than only the historical pictographic script. Indeed, Anishinaabewibii'iganan may describe the pictographic script better since its connections with non-Anishinaabe or -Ojibwe nations extend deeply.

  9. Isotype (picture language) - Wikipedia

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    Pages from Neurath's International picture language, 1936. Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological, and historical connections in pictorial form.