LoCos
Sign in to saveLoCoS (short for Lovers Communication System) is a pictorial language developed by Yukio Ota of Japan in 1964. It was meant as communication for the deaf and mute as well as for the illiterate. It is a universal and simple language, and as Ota put it, "It should emphasize the importance of communication among all the people of all the countries of the world."
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- LoCoS
- Writing system.sample
- LoCoS (LCS).png
- Writing system.type
- Ideographic
- Writing system.languages
- LoCoS
- Writing system.creator
- Yukio Ota
- Writing system.note
- none
- Writing system.date
- 1964
- Writing system.direction
- left-to-right
- Language.name
- LoCoS
- Language.altname
- Lovers Communication System
- Language.creator
- Yukio Ota
- Language.created
- 1964
- Language.fam2
- International auxiliary language
- Language.fam3
- Pasigraphy
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- inception
- 1964-00-00
- described at URL
- inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/index.php?page=languages&id=419
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- Symbols
- Words
- Sentences
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LoCoS (short for Lovers Communication System) is a pictorial language developed by Yukio Ota of Japan in 1964. It was meant as communication for the deaf and mute as well as for the illiterate. It is a universal and simple language, and as Ota put it, "It should emphasize the importance of communication among all the people of all the countries of the world."
==Symbols== There are eight major symbols in LoCoS.