pictograph

Japanese: pictograph
pictograph

…The original form of Mesopotamian cuneiform writing was also pictographic, and the proto-Elamite script, which is probably related to the Sumerian script, the proto-Indian script found in artifacts from the Indus culture, the Cretan script that is currently being deciphered, and the Hittite script, which is thought to have been influenced by it, are all pictographic. The fact that the original forms of these ancient characters are pictographic tells us that they all originated from so-called pictographs. Pictographs are used to represent certain ideas through shapes or combinations of shapes, such as the pictorial communication seen among North American Indians. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "pictograph" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…メソポタミアの楔形(くさびがた)文字の原形も象形による文字であり,おそらくこのシュメール文字と関係のある原始エラム文字,またインダス文化の出土品にみられる原始インド文字(インド系文字),あるいは目下解読されつつあるクレタ文字,その影響と思われるヒッタイト文字など古代の原始的文字はみな象形文字である。これら古代文字の原始形態が象形にあることは,これらがいずれもいわゆる絵文字pictographから発生したことを物語る。絵文字は図形あるいはその結合によってある観念を示すもので,北アメリカのインディアンの間などにみられる絵による伝達などがそれである。…

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