Yerkish
Sign in to saveYerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas.
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Vinony's link graph records 622 inbound references to Yerkish, and connects out to Georgian scripts, Ulu scripts and cuneiform.
It sits within the topics 1971 introductions, Animal communication and Animal rights.
Vinony links it to 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Yerkish
- Language.nativename
- Lexigram
- Language.speakers
- 4 (apes)
- Language.image
- Yerkish Juice.svg
- Language.imagecaption
- The Yerkish lexigram for "juice"
- Language.creator
- Ernst von Glasersfeld
- Language.setting
- Use a keyboard to punch keys with logograms
- Language.fam2
- Animal language
- Language.iso3
- none
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.ietf
- art-x-yerkish
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- great ape language
- Named after
- Robert Yerkes
- Creator
- Ernst von Glasersfeld
- Image
- Yerkish Juice.svg
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- Commons category
- Yerkish
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Context
- Design considerations
- Lexigram concept
- Interface
- Keyboard
- See also
- Notes
- References
Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas.
Lexigrams were notably used by the Georgia State University Language Research Center to communicate with bonobos and chimpanzees. Researchers and primates were able to communicate using lexigram boards made in up to three panels with a total of 384 keys.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yerkish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.