A pictographic script.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Even written language evolved from pictographic expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [inkblurt · The Return of Imagery: Mixpression] Reference

It is the only living pictographic language in the world today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rare Pictographic Chinese Writings Available in Online Presentation « ResourceShelf] Reference

He could read the pictographic lines of algae across the ice's surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

A tree, a mountain, a stream or some rocks are indicated by pictographic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claude Simon - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The Toilet, though, had one of those pictographic instructions mentioned ealier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, Feb. 16 – The Bleat.] Reference

(Presumably this idea is motivated by the pictographic roots of Chinese writing.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohist Canons] Reference

There is no such thing as a true pictographic written language, and there never has been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Pictographs, water-ness, and ness-ness] Reference

There are no windows or folders, but rather an interface heavily reliant on pictographic icons.    From Wordnik.com.  [$100 Laptop Repriced at $175 | Impact Lab] Reference

Once again, we have evidence from the pictographic codices of Central Mexico and adjacent areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III] Reference

Does it represent water-ness more truly than other non-pictographic written forms are capable of doing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Pictographs, water-ness, and ness-ness] Reference

He believes that Pernier's solution was to create a “relic” with an untranslatable pictographic text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is the Phaistos Disk a Fake???] Reference

A similar experiment, published in 2007, showed similar results for Chinese, a more pictographic language.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Inescapable Reality] Reference

Of living languages, Japanese and Chinese seem to sway our Western imagination as links to a pictographic past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Pictographs, water-ness, and ness-ness] Reference

Thus you might even argue it has a pictographic “soul” as distinct from our abstracted chickenscratch alphabet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Pictographs, water-ness, and ness-ness] Reference

The Naxi use a unique pictographic writing system that is similar to the ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rare Pictographic Chinese Writings Available in Online Presentation « ResourceShelf] Reference

How come those pictographic instructions on hot-air hand dryers never show the little man wiping his hands on his pants? madCanada says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, Feb. 16 – The Bleat.] Reference

The installation includes notations for enlarged sections of the five weavings, plus pictographic notations of the video portion of the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beryl Korot.] Reference

A new script called Linear A replaced the Hieroglyphic Script, but except for the numeral system and a few pictographic signs, it cannot be read.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. The Minoan Civilization] Reference

In that sense, the curtain fits neatly into the pictographic mode that Gottlieb used prior to his later grand, formal and fully abstract paintings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abstraction in the Synagogue] Reference

The earliest written history in the New World is in the form of Codices, pictographic records that the Ancient Americans used to record their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mythology and legends of the Nahua people: part 1] Reference

On the sculptured stones in the Copan valley there are characters which seem to resemble very ancient writing, but this pictographic writing is largely untranslatable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference

The flat, circular clay disc is about six inches in diameter, and its purpose and stamped pictographic script have been the subject of scholarly debate over the last century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

The pictographic characters are reproduced in Pl. XVI, B.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

That's an enormous amount of information, much of it redundant and pictographic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

To this many add a pictographic record of great events or of camps they have visited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodland Tales] Reference

The want of letters is thus, in a manner, supplied by signs and pictographic symbols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

WRITING: as form of communication, 381-84; pictographic forms, 381; by symbols, 382-83.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

It was pictographic and showed a man leading a pack-horse along a white road to a wigwam.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Virginia Scout] Reference

This form of structure is generally represented in pictographic records, as shown in Fig. 26.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

A curious and valuable pictographic map of the migration of the Aztecs, not heretofore printed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

As the original inhabitants had no written or pictographic language, much is not known about them and their culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

While he is perhaps best known for his "burst" abstractions, his early pictographic works are rare and highly sought after.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The earliest form of Minoan writing that can be traced consists of rude pictographic symbols engraved upon bead-seals and gems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference

The next stage of development in writing began when the pictographic forms were reduced in complexity to the simplest possible lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

District will be conducting a large-scale online card sort of pictographic road signs used for the identification of tourism sites in Quebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

For example, tepees routinely were painted with objects that had appeared in visions or with pictographic accounts of the warriors who owned them.    From Wordnik.com.  [greatfallstribune.com - Local News] Reference

Behind the short counter are pictures of some of the specialty plates, all glossy, bright, and out-of-focus like the pictographic menus at a Chinese take-out place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

Recently issued on a glow-in-the-dark vinyl 7in etched with a copy of the iconic pictographic message currently hurtling through deep space aboard the Voyager spacecraft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference