Blissymbols

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Blissymbols, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4699 / CC BY SA 3.0 • #Languages_with_Linglist_code • #Engineered_languages • #Auxiliary_and_educational_artificial_scripts • #International_auxiliary_languages • #Pictograms • #Augmentative_and_alternative_communication • #Writing_systems_introduced_in_1949 • #Constructed_languages • #Constructed_languages_introduced_in_the_1940s • Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, • each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. • Blissymbols differ from most of the world's major writing systems in that the characters do not correspond at all to the sounds of any spoken language. • Blissymbols was published by Charles K. Bliss in 1949 and found use in the education of people with communication difficulties. • Blissymbols was invented by Charles K. Bliss （1897–1985）, born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz （at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi）, which had a mixture of • different nationalities that hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages. Bliss graduated as a chemical engineer at the Vienna University of Technology, • and joined an electronics company as a research chemist. • After the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938, Bliss, a Jew, was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. • His German wife Claire managed to get him released, and they finally became exiles in Shanghai, where Bliss had a cousin. • Bliss devised Blissymbols while a refugee at the Shanghai Ghetto and Sydney, from 1942 to 1949. • He wanted to create an easy-to-learn international auxiliary language to allow communication between different linguistic communities. • He was inspired by Chinese characters, with which he became familiar at Shanghai. • Bliss's system was explained in his work Semantography...

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