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Egyptian hieroglyphs, examples of logograms. In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logos 'word', and gramma 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.
A logo (abbreviation of logotype; from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) 'word, speech', and τύπος (túpos) 'mark, imprint') is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.
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Logographic systems. In logographic writing systems, glyphs represent words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful) rather than phonetic elements. No logographic script is composed solely of logograms. All contain graphemes that represent phonetic (sound-based) elements as well.
Name Of ScriptTypePopulation Actively Using (in Millions)Languages Associated With4900+ [2] [note 2]Latin [note 3] and Romance languages ...1541 [3]Sinitic languages ( Mandarin, Min, Wu, ...Arabic العربيةAbjad or Abugida (when diacritics are ...828 [3]Arabic (a Semitic language) Several ...480.5Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Bhojpuri(Top) General properties. Basic terminology. Text, writing, reading and orthography. Grapheme and phoneme. Glyph, sign and character. Complete and partial writing systems. History. Proto-writing systems. Invention of writing systems. Alphabetic writing. Functional classification. Logographic systems. Syllabaries. Alphabets. Featural systems.
A logogram, or logograph, is a written or pictorial symbol that is used to represent an entire word, unlike phonograms, which represent phonetic sounds. Logograms are commonly known as “ideograms” or “ hieroglyphs ” although, technically, an ideogram represents an idea rather than a specific word.
Although many logos are non-free images and should be treated as such, there are three common cases where a logo will be copyright-free: The first case is based on the date of first publication: if the logo was first published before 1929, it can be assumed to be public domain .
