Titre: Pasigraphy
Description: A '''pasigraphy''' (from Greek ''pasi'' 'to all' and ''graph'' 'write') is a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept (rather than a word or sound or series of sounds in a spoken language). The aim (as with ordinary numerals 1, 2, 3, etc.) is to be intelligible to persons of all languages. The term was first applied to a system proposed in 1796, though a number of pasigraphies had been devised prior to that; Leopold Einstein reviews 60 attempts at creating an international auxiliary language, the majority of the 17th-18th century projects being pasigraphies of one kind or another,Leopold Einstein, "Al la historio de la Provoj de Lingvoj Tutmondaj de Leibnitz ĝis la Nuna Tempo", 1884. Reprinted in ''Fundamenta Krestomatio'', UEA 1992 [1903]. while Arika Okrent includes a list of 500 in her book on the subject, with samples of many.Arika Okrent, ''In The Land of Invented Languages'', Spiegel & Grau 2009 (ISBN 0385527888). Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz wrote about the Alphabet of human thought and Alexander von Humboldt corresponded with Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1760-1844) who proposed a universal phonetic alphabet.Examples of pasigraphies include Blissymbols and Real Character.
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