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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.
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.
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script and the Indus Valley script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation.Most inscriptions containing these symbols are extremely short, making it difficult to judge whether or not they constituted a writing system used to record a Harappan language, any of which are yet to be identified. [3]
The meaning and usage of these tokens is still a matter of debate. [25] These tokens were in use from the 9th millennium BC and remained in occasional use even late in the 2nd millennium BC. [26] Early tokens with pictographic shapes of animals, associated with numbers, were discovered in Tell Brak, and date to the mid-4th millennium BC. [27]
Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script from 1884 A thin object (pen), held with three fingers, allows one to draw thin lines. Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument .
Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It evolved into Linear B , which was used by the Mycenaeans to write an early form of Greek . It was discovered by the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in 1900.
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 ...
This definition excludes a broader class of symbolic markings, such as drawings and maps. [ a ] [ 4 ] A text is any instance of written material, including transcriptions of spoken material. [ 5 ] The act of composing and recording a text is referred to as writing , [ 6 ] and the act of viewing and interpreting the text as reading .