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But in every case, the shift is gradual and subsumes elements of the purely ideographic writing, proving that the early ideographic writing was seen as just as much a language as the newer script that includes phonetic elements.

If sized for English, boxes need to be expanded.) They don't list any of the ideographic languages, which would be interesting.

It's definitely a trade-off, that's why the idea of ideographic variables is so interesting.

Do you have pointers to discussion of purely-ideographic language writing with no phonetic component?

This is particularly true for written Japanese because of its ideographic content, which is extremely dense, but it's true of spoken Japanese too.

Some Han characters are ideographic in nature, but not all of them.

Certainly ideographic cuneiform counts as writing just as much as modern english.

Just being a substitution cipher sacrifices the power of ideographic writing.

Japanese places a heavy emphasis on how the characters are pronounced because their language is not purely ideographic; rather they use a hybrid phonetic and ideographic system which forces the reader to vocalize sentences including the Kanji characters.

I would have thought that Unicode be used for representing the common natural language alphabetic, ideographic and symbolic glyphs that had widespread communal and historical use.

Check out Ideographic Description Sequence.

But a Chinese would learn phonetic writing in less time than ideographic writing and would be capable to express complex ideas using the most composable writing system in less time, no doubt.

My character was U+3000, "ideographic space", in case anyone's interested.

The ideographic languages can't claim "a limited number of characters".

According to Wikipedia, this is being coordinated by the Ideographic Rapporteur Group, and "the working members of the IRG are either appointed by member governments, or are invited experts from other countries.

The Egyptians developed paper-like papyrus thousands of years before the first uses of "paper" paper, and they largely abandoned their ideographic hieroglypics in favor of the Heiratic and Demotic scripts, which are syllabaries, for all but formal usages.