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A symbol language meant to need no translation.
Also known as: Semantography
The script designed in the 1940s as a writing system conveying meaning without reference to any spoken language.
Writes meaning directly in composed geometric figures rather than recording the sounds of a spoken language.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Designed by Charles Bliss to be readable by speakers of any language, and taken up not for that purpose at all but as a communication system for children without speech — the invention succeeded by being used for something its designer had not intended and initially objected to.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Simple geometric figures — a circle, a line, an arc, a square — combined and modified to build compound meanings, written left to right.