pasigraphy

plural pasigraphies

1. human sciencesA writing system where concepts are written instead of words. The system is not phonetic and uses ideograms, such as mathematical symbols. It is intended to be universally understood.

   He spent his spare time on the weekend perfecting his very own pasigraphy.

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   M. Alexander Kis, of Pest in Hungary, has recently invented an universal alphabet, or species of pasigraphy applicable to all languages.

   1813, “[untitled]”, in Alexander Tilloch, editor, The Philosophical Magazine, volume XLI, number 182, Richard Taylor and Co., page 158

   People call any written universal language a "pasigraphy" ; thus the international code of maritime signals is a "pasigraphy."

   1912, Couturat, “For Logistics”, in Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain, transl., The Monist, volume XXII, number 4, The Open Court Publishing Company, page 488

   Besides systems that can be both written and spoken (pasilalies), or planned languages, there are also written-only projects (pasigraphies), which again can be divided into a priori and a posteriori systems.

   [2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “Planned languages and interlinguistics” (chapter 7), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 33