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
The peculiar character of this design inclines me to the view that it probably had an ideographic origin, although possibly treated here as pure decoration.
From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by Holmes, William Henry
Young appears to have started with the idea, then generally current, that hieroglyphic symbols were purely ideographic, each sign representing a word.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William
Only the ideographic values of the characters are given, but they are mostly correct.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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