Thursday, December 15, 2011

What language uses pictograms?

Question:


social studies question , study guide for seventh grade midterms tomorrow .
What language uses pictograms? Out of China , India , and Greece , I believe .

Answer:


Most languages, like for example Ancient Chinese, Mayan, Sumerian, and Egyptian, started out using pictograms. But modern languages that don't use an alphabet use _logograms_, like for example Han characters used for the Chinese languages and Japanese (Kanji), and less frequently for Korean and Vietnamese.

Practically all languages spoken in India use an alphabet, and Modern Greek is written in the Greek alphabet.

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