phraseology idiomatics Phrygian Indo-European phylum language family pictogram pictography pictography [Lat. pictum ‘painted,’ Grk gráphein ‘to write’]

Graphemic system in which linguistically independent concepts or meanings of linguistic utterances are expressed in pictorial signs (pictograms), whereby an individual sign can stand for complex concepts or whole meanings. Writing systems such as those used by the Alaskan Eskimos, and international symbols, like those used at airports and at the Olympic Games, are pictograms. ( also ideography)

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The term ‘pidgin’ is probably a corruption of the English word business, as pronounced by the indigenous Chinese, and designates a mixed language that arises in situations where speakers of different languages are unable to understand each other’s native language and, therefore, need to develop a common means of communication. In such situations, the structure and vocabulary of the individual native languages are reduced

mixed language develops from the rudimentary contact language and is learned along with one’s native language.