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How do you make a Logogram?
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How do you start a Conlang?
It’s easier with a conlang: you can start by writing an outline! Then you can stare at a blank outline instead. If you’re not used to outlining, the idea is to state your topics and their order before you actually write anything.
How do Logographic languages work?
A logogram is a single written character which represents a complete grammatical word. Chinese characters are type examples of logograms. As each character represents a single word (or, more precisely, a morpheme), many logograms are required to write all the words of language.
How do you make conlang words?
To keep your conlang from feeling like English, don’t give it words for just the same concepts as in English. Try to invent words that have the meanings of more than one English word, or are more specific than English words. Even better are words that fall between levels of description in English.
How many languages use logograms?
Writing systems that make use of logograms include Chinese, Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, and early cuneiform writing systems. No known writing system is totally logographic; all such systems have both logograms and symbols representing particular sounds or syllables.
Is Chinese a logographic?
Chinese script, as mentioned above, is logographic; it differs from phonographic writing systems—whose characters or graphs represent units of sound—in using one character or graph to represent a morpheme.
What are some universal words?
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- Words like “Ma” – Organic associations.
- Words like “huh?” – conversational repair initiation.
- Words like “Boom” – Iconicity.
- Words like “Xerox” – Genericized trademarks.
- Words like “Coffee” and “Taxi” – Globalization.
- Words like Gitarre and Guitar – Cognates.
How do you pick sounds for a Conlang?
The sounds should also be similar to one another in some way; avoid having “freak” sounds that have no relatives. For example, if you have an aspirated stop (a hard consonant like “t”, with a puff of air after it), try to have more than one (but not every aspirated stop).
What current languages write in Logograms?
They include:
- Anatolian hieroglyphs: Luwian.
- Cuneiform: Sumerian, Akkadian, other Semitic languages, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hurrian, and Urartian.
- Maya glyphs: Chorti, Yucatec, and other Classic Maya languages.
- Han characters: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Zhuang.
- Derivatives of Han characters: Chữ nôm: Vietnam.