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Blissymbolics Communication International
Blissymbolics is a symbolic, graphical language that is currently composed of over 3,000 symbols. Bliss-characters can be combined and recombined in endless ways to create new symbols. Bliss-words can be sequenced to form many types of sentences, and express many grammatical capabilities. Simple shapes are used to keep the symbols easy and fast to draw.
www.blissymbolics.org/
The fundamental rules of Blissymbolics (PDF)    Blissymbolics Language: Online Nexus   

 

BlissOnline - Make your own Blisscharts
Excellent service! Image quality is near perfection. Use this also as a dictionary.
blissonline.se/chart

 

CHARLES was born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, a mixture of peoples where, as he wrote in 1965, 20 different nationalities hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages. In the year of Charles birth, the Emperor, Franz Joseph I, was in his 49th year on the throne, Johannes Brahms died, and Gustav Mahler became director of the Vienna Opera. Anton Bruckner had died the year before, and the year after saw the pointless fatal stabbing by an Italian anarchist of the Empress Elisabeth while she was sightseeing in Geneva, Switzerland, on 10th September, 1898.

The languages Charles heard all around him were not logical at all, and by the time he was in high school, he says, he refused to learn the unruly rules of languages, and he refused to differentiate between the relative, indefinite, intensive, reflective or reciprocal pronoun. He would not believe that children must be tortured with such illogical matters. By this time Charles had been impressed by two wonderful logical languages expressed in the symbols of mathematics and chemistry which could be read by anyone no matter what their mother-tongue might be.

 

 

Blissymbols - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blissymbolics or Blissymbols were conceived of as an ideographic writing system consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. Blissymbols differ from all the world's major writing systems in that the characters do not directly correspond to the sounds of any spoken language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbolics

 

HANDICOM: Bliss for Windows Software
International homepage of Handicom, manufacturer of software for handicapped, such as Bliss for Windows and Symbol for Windows.
handicom.nl/

 

Papers of Charles Bliss (1897-1985)
The papers of Charles Bliss were acquired by the Library, initially from Bliss and, following his death, from his executor and the State Library of New South Wales.
nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/3884.html

 

Blissymbols at Omniglot
Blissymbolics were developed by Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985). Bliss originally called his invention "Semantography" and intended for it to be used as a universal written language which would enable speakers of different languages to commuicate with one another.
omniglot.com/writing/blissymbolics.htm

 

Muter 1986, Blissymbolics, Cognition, and the Handicapped
Advantages and disadvantages of alphabetic and logographic writing systems are discussed, with particular emphasis on Blissymbolics as an example of a logographic system.
psych.utoronto.ca/~muter/Abs1986a.htm

 

(PDF) Encoding Blissymbolics in Plane 1 of the UCS
It is proposed that the encoding for Blissymbolics in the UCS be ideographic, like Chinese. Blissymbols combine with one another in the horizontal plane, with a small set of combining characters which serves to give verbs tense, identify plurals, and to differentiate nouns from verbs and adjectives.
std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1866.pdf

 

 

 

Non-English Bliss Websites

 

Välkommen till Blisspost-projektet!
I BLISS-post-projektet.
blisspost.org/

 

PAPUNET - BLISSKIELI - ETUSIVU - UUTTA
Fascinating Experience reading this site. As a reader of only engish and blissymbolics it was a cool experience to find a site where I really NEED the blissymbols to know what they're saying! Interlingua!
papunet.net/bliss/

 

Die Sprache der Nicht-Sprechenden
Karl Blitz wurde im Jahr 1897 in Czernowitz geboren, studierte in Wien und erlangte dort den Abschlue eines Chemie-Ingenieurs. Als Jude wurde er 1938 im KZ Dachau und speter im KZ Buchenwald interniert.
uni-kl.de/FB-SoWi/LS-Zink/BLISS/article.html

 

 

 

Personal Bliss Websites

 

My Blissymbolics Photo Album
blissymbolics.us/album/

 

Blissymbolics: Path to the Future (PDF)
For centuries, perhaps millenia, writing was solely the province of scribes, carefully writing each letter by hand for the benefit of the learned classes. Each stroke of the pen was like a prayer that the form would endure.
blissymbolics.us/George.Sutton.PDF