Idea writing
An idea writing (also obsolete ideography ) is a picture writing in which the representation of a conceptual context by pictorial symbols ( pictograms ) takes place independently of a certain language .
example
As an example, Ernst Doblhofer cites a symbol (pictogram) that consists of a circle with a halo around it. If this sign does not just mean “sun”, but stands for a related idea such as “warmth” or “hot”, it is an ideogram , i.e. a sign of an idea font .
Occurrence of idea writings
Such writings of ideas were already developed in the Paleolithic (see above all Földes-Papp 1987). The Neolithic old European Balkan scripts (for example the so-called Vinča script , see Kuckenburg 2004) also belong to this category. More recent examples of this type are the writing systems of the Siberian Jukagirs and the South Chinese Naxi (Moso).
literature
- Földes-Papp, Károly: From rock art to alphabet. The history of writing. Belser, Stuttgart 1987.
- Friedrich, Johannes: history of writing. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1966.
- Yellow, IJ: From cuneiform to the alphabet. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958.
- Haarmann, Harald: Universal history of writing. Campus, Frankfurt - New York 1990.
- Kuckenburg, Martin: Who spoke the first word? The emergence of language and writing. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Doblhofer: The decipherment of ancient scripts and languages. Reclam, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-15-008854-2 , p. 22.