
terminology - Is there really any difference between the words ...
Sep 2, 2022 · Ideographs are pictographs but with a meaning different from the images or word. They are, more often than not, pictographs that are alluding to something that isn't tangible. …
Why should Ideograph/Ideogram be shunned, because it can refer …
May 29, 2021 · Contemporary linguists generally regard them as representing morphemes of the language, not abstract bits of semantics, and so tend to avoid referring to them as "ideographs".
writing systems - Why is a Compound Ideograph disastrous if the …
Nov 26, 2017 · Doesn't the bolded accurately describe those Chinese Compound Ideographs where each of the characters may be relevant to the Compound Ideograph, but all are …
terminology - Difference between ideogram and logogram?
In Sumerian cuneiform inventory there are signs which initially denoted only a single concept like "sun" (in the sense of a pictogram) and which are transfered to other "similar" concepts like …
How do Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs differ?
Jan 7, 2022 · The biggest difference, as you mention, is that the oldest forms of hieroglyphic writing don't indicate vowels at all and the oldest forms of cuneiform writing do. (By "oldest …
phonology - When is variation in the realisation of a phoneme ...
Sep 17, 2015 · The acoustic characteristics of the realisation of a given phoneme may vary depending on phonological context. For example, [v] may have a higher Zero Crossing Rate if …
Why do European languages use a similar alphabet, but South …
Why is it that in Europe, most written languages (Spanish, English, German, ect.) use very similar alphabets (Latin), while countries in South East Asia, which are similarly geographically close to...
Old-Persian Numeral System - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Does any body know how old-Persian numeral were used and provide some example? (source of image is Unicode characters maps)
phonology - Can languages restrict their number of distinct …
Aug 8, 2020 · Think of the Chinese ideographs spreading over all Chinese territory and even beyond to Korea and Japan. Or the Roman letters spreading over the former empire and …
How are line breaks handled in ideographic scripts?
LineBreak.txt Three principal styles of context analysis determine line break opportunities. Western: spaces and hyphens are used to determine breaks East Asian: lines can break …