Editing Blissymbols (section)

{{Short description|Ideographic writing system}}
{{for|the computer language|BLISS}}
{{Infobox writing system
|name=Blissymbols
|type=[[Ideographic]]
|time=1949 to the present
|languages=Blissymbols
|iso15924=Blis
|sample= Basicsymbols.svg
|imagesize= 256px
|note=none
|direction = Varies
}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Blissymbols
|nativename=[[File:Blissymbolics-white.svg|14px]] ("world language")
|creator=[[Charles K. Bliss]]
|created=1949
|setting=[[Augmentative and Alternative Communication]]
|speakers=
|ref=
|fam2=[[International auxiliary language]]
|fam3=[[Pasigraphy]]
|posteriori=[[Ideograph]]ic [[writing|written]] [[language]]
|agency=Blissymbolics Communication International
|iso2=zbl
|iso3=zbl
|linglist=zbl
|glotto=blis1239
|ietf =zbl-bciav (subset defined in the BCI Authorized Vocabulary), zbl-bcizbl (version curated by the BCI).<ref name="IETF">{{cite web |title=Language Subtag Registry |url=https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry |publisher=IETF |access-date=28 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
}}

'''Blissymbols''' or '''Blissymbolics''' is a [[constructed language]] conceived as an [[ideographic]] writing system called '''Semantography''' consisting of several hundred basic [[symbol]]s, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. Blissymbols differ from most of the world's major writing systems in that the characters do not correspond at all to the sounds of any [[spoken language]].

''Semantography'' was published by [[Charles K. Bliss]] in 1949 and found use in the education of people with communication difficulties.