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Blissymbols

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
Language.created: 1949
Language.setting: Augmentative and alternative communication
Language.fam2: International auxiliary language
Language.fam3: Pasigraphy
Language.posteriori: Ideographic written language
Language.agency: Blissymbolics Communication International

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History
The speech question
Grammar
Examples
Country names
Abstract concepts
Towards the international standardization of the script
See also
References
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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.