In the case of Chinese, the phonetic element is built into the logogram itself; in Egyptian and Mayan, many glyphs are purely phonetic, whereas others function as either logograms or phonetic elements, depending on context.
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In the case of Chinese, the phonetic element is built into the logogram itself; in Egyptian and Mayan, many glyphs are purely phonetic, whereas others function as either logograms or phonetic elements, depending on context.
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Both " kango " in modern Japanese and classical " kanbun " have Sino-xenic linguistic and phonetic elements also found in Korean and Vietnamese : that is, they are " Sino-foreign, " not purely Chinese.
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Kelley's landmark 1962 paper, " Phoneticism in the Maya Script ", would provide important corroborating data of the phonetic interpretation of Maya glyphs, which ran counter to the then-prevailing view that the script lacked phonetic elements.
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The modern Chinese transcription for the Gelao people is " Gelaozu " �NlO�e with the " human radical ", and " Gelao " was previously written �r�r with the " dog radical " and the same phonetic elements.
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Generally the glyphs used as phonetic elements were originally logograms that stood for words that were themselves single syllables, syllables that either ended in a vowel or in a weak consonant such as " y, w, h, " or glottal stop.
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The original Sumerian writing system was derived from a system of clay cuneiform ), at first only for logograms, but developed to include phonetic elements by the 2800 BC . About 2600 BC cuneiform began to represent syllables of spoken Sumerian language.
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Within the classification of Chinese characters, almost all " monkey; ape " words with the exceptions of " nao " Y and " yu " �y that were originally monkey dog / quadruped radical " �r for simians, and a phonetic element that suggests pronunciation.
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These phonetic elements may be used on their own ( to represent, for example, grammatical inflections or foreign words ), or may serve as phonetic complements to a logogram ( used to specify the sound of a logogram that might otherwise represent more than one word ).
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The resulting strong graphical aspect, versus a weaker phonetic element ( in comparison to other languages, such as A . C . Graham cautions against over-emphasizing this visual effect, which he says can " . . . act on the imagination like blobs in the Rorschach test.
