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| Sep 17, 2020 at 1:51 | comment | added | jastako | @Tim What you're describing is a ideographic/pictographic writing system. Chinese/Japanese could be an example as could something like Mayan or any other Native American cave drawings.The latter are mostly if not all pictographic, meaning they are pictures of what they represent. The others contain a mixture of elements: ideographic (abstract) & sometimes syllabic. Mayan is mostly syllabic, but there is a Mayan-esque script for toki pona called "sitelen sitelen" that isn't syllabic at all. | |
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| May 10, 2019 at 20:46 | comment | added | Mike Nichols | @Tim It's worth noting that that article is quite old now and Sai has gone on to develop a non-linear writing system like you are describing called Unker Non-Linear Writing System. | |
| May 9, 2019 at 14:17 | comment | added | Tim | Just finished reading Sai's article — it's a gold-mine! Very dense, though. I'll have to do more research and read it a few more times to fully understand it. Modern logographic systems are too heavily influenced by alphabets/phonetics — they just confuse me with minutae; Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, however, are getting closer to what I had in mind. Personal identifiers are already sorted. Haven't gotten to the point of considering data structures for it yet. | |
| May 9, 2019 at 12:36 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | @Tim It would be worth looking at the natural language logographic scripts to see what they wrote phonetically. At the very least names would be hard. Maybe your language wouldn't have any true names, but you'd still need a way to distinguish symbols used as an identifier from their normal meanings. | |
| May 9, 2019 at 12:30 | comment | added | Tim | I'm not concerned if it can be expressed orally — I just want to expressly exclude phonetics from the design process — see what doors a 'clean break' opens up. "logographic writing system" — thanks, I'll investigate that. Yes, building symbols from other symbols is allowed — desirable, even. | |
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| May 9, 2019 at 11:50 | history | answered | curiousdannii♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |