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In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard. It describes 763 signs in 26 categories (A–Z, roughly). Georg Möller compiled more extensive lists, organized by historical epoch (published posthumously in 1927 and 1936).
The banner depicts the emblem of Kerala on a white field. State seal. Seal of Kerala. കേരള ഔദ്യോഗിക ചിഹ്നം. The emblem portrays two elephants guarding the state and national insignias. The state insignia is the conch-shell of Lord Sri Padmanabha and the national insignia is the Lion Capital of Ashoka. [ 1]
Type Symbol Year Image Bird: Mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) 1967 Animal: Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) 1973 Fish: Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncoryhnchus clarki henshawi) 1981 Fossil: Ichthyosaur (Shonisaurus popularis) [2] [3] 1977 Reptile: Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) 1989 Insect: Vivid Dancer Damselfly (Argia ...
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
List of proofreader's marks. This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin ...
Egyptian hieroglyphs ( / ˈhaɪrəˌɡlɪfs /, / ˈhaɪroʊˌɡlɪfs /) [ 1 ][ 2 ] were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 100 distinct characters. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature ...
Animal languages are forms of non-human animal communication that show similarities to human language. [ 1] Animals communicate through a variety of signs, such as sounds and movements. Signing among animals may be considered a form of language if the inventory of signs is large enough. The signs are relatively arbitrary, and the animals seem ...
Many (but not all) graphemes that are part of a writing system that encodes a full spoken language are included in the Unicode standard, which also includes graphical symbols. See: Language code; List of Unicode characters; List of writing systems; Punctuation; List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks