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There exist many other pictographic systems, e.g., | There exist many other pictographic systems, e.g., | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideogram Ideogram]s, the kind of icons that are used in airports or in other public areas to signal places and objects. | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideogram Ideogram]s, the kind of icons that are used in airports or in other public areas to signal places and objects. | ||
* Formal languages used in computer science to model systems or workflows | * Formal languages used in computer science to model systems or workflows | ||
* Specialized notation languages, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig Therblig], 18 kinds of elemental motions used in the study of motion economy in the workplace. | |||
* Picture languages like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language) Isotype] that allow to convey more complex concepts through a single icon or a combination. | * Picture languages like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language) Isotype] that allow to convey more complex concepts through a single icon or a combination. | ||
Revision as of 12:40, 14 October 2015
Introduction
A pictographic language allows people to communicate via icons.
The earliest systems can be found in some mesoamerican writing systems (Wikipedia), e.g. Aztec.
Today's systems represent constructed languages. It's best known ones were invented in the last century.
Pictographic language systems
Iconji
According to Wikipedia, “iConji is a free pictographic communication system based on an open, visual vocabulary of characters with built-in translations for most major languages.”. A first version was released for the Apple iOS and Web browsers in 2010.
iConji, according to its homepage, uses about 1200 colorful characters. Apps can then translate from and to several languages. i.e. Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
Blissymbols
According to Wikipedia, Blissymbols or Blissymbolics was conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.
Bliss systems are a standardized font in ISO 15924
Related systems
There exist many other pictographic systems, e.g.,
- Ideograms, the kind of icons that are used in airports or in other public areas to signal places and objects.
- Formal languages used in computer science to model systems or workflows
- Specialized notation languages, such as Therblig, 18 kinds of elemental motions used in the study of motion economy in the workplace.
- Picture languages like Isotype that allow to convey more complex concepts through a single icon or a combination.
Links
Summaries of various languages
- IConji (Wikipedia)
- Blisssymbols