Pictographic Script

In both senses also called pictogram.

Pictographic script. Like other ancient writing systems the hebrew alphabet originally was written using a pictographic script. Mixtec mixtec perhaps pictographic olmec olmec civilization possibly the oldest mesoamerican script para lydian script unknown language of asia minor. Pictographic writing also picture writing pictography the representation of the content of a message by a picture or a sequence of pictures. Turtle carapaces and ox scapulae with inscriptions scratched into them were discovered about 1900 in the area of xiaotun a.

N another word for pictograph. Naxi pictographic script the naxi have a pictographic script that has now received worldwide recognition because it is the only living pictographic script in the world 1 it is also commonly referred to as the dongba script. A picture representing a word phrase or idea especially one used in early writing systems. Phaistos disc a unique text very possibly not writing proto elamite elam nearly as old as sumerian.

Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictorial in appearance. The ancient twenty two hebrew letters were originally pictures of animals tools or parts of the body. Learn the ancient pictographic hebrew script by jeff a. Bone and shell script pictographic script found on oracle bones it was widely used in divination in the shang dynasty c.

A pictogram also called a pictogramme pictograph or simply picto and in computer usage an icon is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographic writing is not true writing since it does not record speech itself but reflects speech content usually mnemonically. Later the pictograms evolved into a hebrew script sometimes called paleo hebrew that strongly resembled the ancient phoenician alphabet this was the hebrew ketav ivri used by the jewish nation up to the babylonian exile or according to orthodox jews until the exodus from egypt. 2000 1850 b c that a systematized pictographic or hieroglyphic script makes its appearance which is common both to signets and clay tablets.

Pictographic script synonyms pictographic script pronunciation pictographic script translation english dictionary definition of pictographic script. Latin pictus past. The ancient hebrew alephbet has very little resemblence to the modern hebrew alephbet though the modern did evolve out of the ancient. It is however during the middle minoan age the centre point of which corresponds with the xiith egyptian dynasty according to the sothic system of dating c.

A pictorial representation of numerical data or relationships especially a graph but having each value represented by a proportional number of pictures.