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  2. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    No logographic script is composed solely of logograms. All contain graphemes that represent phonetic (sound-based) elements as well. These phonetic elements may be used on their own (to represent, for example, grammatical inflections or foreign words), or may serve as phonetic complements to a logogram (used to specify the sound of a logogram ...

  3. List of constructed scripts - Wikipedia

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    Logographic script historically used to write the extinct Tangut language: Tengwar: Teng: 1930s: J. R. R. Tolkien: Elven script used for various languages in his novel The Lord of the Rings: Testerian: 1529: Jacobo de Testera: Pictorial writing system used until the 19th century to teach Christian doctrine to the indigenous peoples of Mexico ...

  4. Logogram - Wikipedia

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    Logographic systems include the earliest writing systems; the first historical civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica used some form of logographic writing. [1] [2] All logographic scripts ever used for natural languages rely on the rebus principle to extend a relatively limited set of logograms: A subset of characters is ...

  5. Phonetic complement - Wikipedia

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    A phonetic complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Linear B, Japanese, and Mayan. Often they disambiguate an ideogram by spelling out the first or last syllable of the word; occasionally (as in Linear B) they may instead abbreviate an ...

  6. Category:Logographic writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans; العربية; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Български; Català; Español; Français; Galego; 한국어; हिन्दी; Bahasa ...

  7. Talk:Logogram - Wikipedia

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    All logographic scripts ever used for natural languages rely on the rebus principle to extend a relatively limited set of logograms Beside the secondary but glaring historical oversimplifalsehood ('first historical civilizations'), this is confused about why categories are what they are, and why they are important.

  8. Semi-cursive script - Wikipedia

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    Semi-cursive script, also known as running script, is a style of Chinese calligraphy that emerged during the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD). The style is used to write Chinese characters and is abbreviated slightly where a character's strokes are permitted to be visibly connected as the writer writes, but not to the extent of the cursive style. [2]

  9. Regular script - Wikipedia

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    The regular script did not become dominant until the 5th century during the early Northern and Southern period (420–589); there was a variety of the regular script which emerged from neo-clerical as well as regular scripts [4] known as 'Wei regular' (魏楷; Wèikǎi) or 'Wei stele' (魏碑; Wèibēi). Thus, the regular script is descended ...