Pasigraphy
A pasigraphy (from Greek πᾶσι pasi "to all" and γράφω grapho "to write") is a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept (rather than a word or sound or series of sounds in a spoken language).
The aim is to be intelligible to persons of all languages. The term was first applied to a system proposed in 1796, though a number of pasigraphies had been devised prior to that;
Leibniz wrote about the alphabet of human thought and Alexander von Humboldt corresponded with Peter Stephen Du Ponceau who proposed a universal phonetic alphabet
.
Examples of pasigraphies include
Real Character, and IConji
.
See also
- Cave Beck
- Constructed language
- Emoji
- Engineered language
- Ideogram
- Jacob Linzbach
- Joseph de Maimieux
- Philosophical language
References
- ^ Leopold Einstein, "Al la historio de la Provoj de Lingvoj Tutmondaj de Leibniz ĝis la Nuna Tempo", 1884. Reprinted in Fundamenta Krestomatio, UEA 1992 [1903].
- ISBN 0385527888).
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