Blissymbols
Also known as Blissymbolics, Bliss, Bliss Symbols, Bliss Symbolics, world language, zbl, Blis, World Writing
Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language 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.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Blissymbols
- Writing system.type
- Ideographic
- Writing system.time
- 1949 to the present
- Writing system.languages
- Blissymbols
- Writing system.iso15924
- Blis
- Writing system.sample
- Basicsymbols.svg
- Writing system.imagesize
- 256px
- Writing system.note
- none
- Writing system.direction
- Varies
- Language.name
- Blissymbols
- Language.nativename
- 14px ("world language")
- Language.creator
- Charles K. Bliss
Article
10 sectionsContents
- History
- The speech question
- Grammar
- Examples
- Country names
- Abstract concepts
- Towards the international standardization of the script
- See also
- References
- External links
Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language 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.
Blissymbols differ from most of the world's major writing systems in that the characters do not correspond at all to the sounds of any spoken language.
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1949 introductionsAugmentative and alternative communicationAuxiliary and educational artificial scriptsConstructed languagesConstructed languages introduced in the 1940sEngineered languagesInternational auxiliary languagesLanguage articles with IETF language tagLanguage articles with Linglist codeLanguages with ISO 639-2 codePictogramsScripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes