From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 1618
Date: 2003-08-12
>"Morphogram" means a sign that denotes a morpheme, just as "logogram"
> At 05:37 AM 8/12/2003, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >Neither Chinese nor Zhuang is or was written with "ideographs." As you
> >say, they denote pronunciation and/or meaning, not "ideas." The
> >appropriate term is "logograph," or if you want to be picky
> >"morphograph."
>
> Can you explain what morphograph means in this context, please? A couple of
> years ago, I took to using the term to refer to things like Arabic letters
> that changes its shape depending on word-position, neighbouring shapes,
> etc. The changeability of the shapes suggested to me the term morphograph,
> and I was unaware that this term was used in any other way.