How to pronounce “logograph” in English

And without knowing where word breaks begin and end, you are at a deep disadvantage.You have no easy way of telling whether the system is logographic, syllabic, or alphabetic, what the language of the inscription might be, or even if the inscription iswriting at all. So what did all these elegant diagnostic tests tell Arthur Evans about Linear B?

But Chinese is this really cool writing system because what we Chinese is what we call logographic.At least, it's mostly logographic.That means that each Chinese character represents an idea rather than being something phonetic that you can sound out.

And I'm not very good at it.But Chinese is this really cool writing system because what we Chinese is what we call logographic.At least, it's mostly logographic.

Just count the number of different characters the script contains, and the total will tell you what kind of writing system you're looking at.If the number is very large, in the thousands or tens of thousands, of course you're looking at a logographic system, like Chinese, where each word has its owndesignated symbol. If the number is between about 80 and 200, then you have a syllabic system, like the Cherokee script, which has 85