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Example sentences for: pictographs

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The indigenous peoples have been here for 9,000 years and have left their colored pictographs of moose, caribou, bears, and turtles etched in the granite cliffs.
After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.
They are Chinese transliterations of those names, rather than translations, and strictly speaking in the Romanization system known as Pinyin should be written with tone signs and without capitals, since Chinese has pictographs, not letters as we understand them.
Presumably, Sumerian or Egyptian accountants--no boob-bookkeepers they!--first substituted signs for pictographs, giving them phonetic instead of semantic values.