What are phonographic languages in symbol language?

• Definition: Phonographic languages use writing systems that primarily represent the sounds of spoken language, such as phonemes or syllables.

Characteristics:

• The script corresponds to the pronunciation of words.
• Focuses on sound rather than meaning.
• Easier to decode for pronunciation, but understanding meaning requires knowledge of the language.

Examples:

1. Alphabetic Systems: Each symbol (letter) represents individual sounds (phonemes)

• Latin Script: Used for languages such as English, Spanish, French, German, and many others.
• Cyrillic Script: Used for languages like Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
• Greek Script: Used for Greek language.

2. Abjad System:

• Abjads are particularly suited for Semitic languages.
• Arabic Script: Used for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and several other languages in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Hebrew Script: Used for Hebrew and Yiddish languages.

3. Abugida System:

Where each symbol represents a consonant with an inherent vowel sound, like in the Devanagari script used for Hindi.

• Devanagari Script: Used for languages including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Konkani and others in India.

4. Syllabic systems: Where each symbol represents an entire syllable, as in the Chinese (Pinyin), Korean (Hangul), Japanese Hiragana and Katakana scripts are syllabic scripts used in the Japanese writing system, and the Cherokee script with their variations and adaptations.