Editing Pasigraphy

{{short description|Writing system wherein each symbol represents a concept}}
[[File:Basicsymbols.JPG|thumb|Basic Blissymbols.]]
[[File:John Wilkins Lord's Prayer.jpg|thumb|The [[Lord's Prayer]] in [[John Wilkins]]'s ''Real Character''.]]
A '''pasigraphy''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] πᾶσι ''pasi'' "to all" and γράφω ''grapho'' "to write") is a [[writing system]] where each written [[symbol]] represents a concept (rather than a word or sound or series of sounds in a spoken language).

The aim is to be intelligible to persons of all languages. The term was first applied to a system proposed in 1796, though a number of pasigraphies had been devised prior to that; [[Leopold Einstein]] reviews 60 attempts at creating an [[international auxiliary language]], the majority of the 17th–18th century projects being pasigraphies of one kind or another,<ref name="einstein1884">Leopold Einstein, "Al la historio de la Provoj de Lingvoj Tutmondaj de Leibniz ĝis la Nuna Tempo", 1884. Reprinted in ''Fundamenta Krestomatio'', UEA 1992 [1903].</ref> and several pasigraphies and auxiliary languages, including some sample texts, are also reviewed in [[Arika Okrent]]'s book on constructed languages.<ref name="okrent2009">Arika Okrent, ''In The Land of Invented Languages'', Spiegel & Grau 2009 ({{ISBN|0385527888}}).</ref> [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] wrote about the [[alphabet of human thought]] and [[Alexander von Humboldt]] corresponded with [[Peter Stephen Du Ponceau]] who proposed a universal [[phonemic orthography|phonetic alphabet]].

Examples of pasigraphies include [[Blissymbols]], [[An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language|Real Character]], [[IConji]] and [[Yerkish]].

== See also ==
* [[Cave Beck]]
* [[Constructed language]]
* [[Emoji]]
* [[Engineered language]]
* [[Ideogram]]
* [[Jacob Linzbach]]
* [[Joseph de Maimieux]]
* [[Philosophical language]]

== References ==

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[[Category:Interlinguistics]]
[[Category:Writing systems]]


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