ideographic
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My analysis suggests that these khipus may be logosyllabic, meaning that they record their messages through a combination of phonetic and ideographic symbols.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2017
Between the 5th and 8th centuries, Japan imported from China its ideographic writing, its Buddhist religion, its form of government organization and codes of law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of the values given to the characters as well as many of their ideographic meanings are Semitic.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Down to a comparatively late period new characters were invented or old characters combined in a new way, while new phonetic and ideographic values were assigned to the characters which already existed.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Thus at an extremely remote epoch, some millenniums ago, the Sumerians had already got rid of the pictorial, and to a great extent of the ideographic, but had barely reached the alphabetic phase.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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