Logosyllabic Script

The atlas uses the term logosyllabic for scripts whose logograms are used together with a phonetic component. The cited article, titled Logogram because the title Logosyllabic redirects to it, defines a logogram as a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme, and says that although a writing system primarily using logograms is called a logography, all known logographies have some phonetic component, generally based on the rebus principle, and that the addition of a phonetic component to pure ideographs is considered a key innovation in enabling a writing system to adequately encode human language. It names Chinese characters, Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform script as writing with logograms. Scripts the atlas records as logosyllabic are grouped under this entry.