21. These logograms are used mainly for functional words such as pronouns, articles, prepositions, and conjunctions. 22. The practice of using these logograms appears to have originated from the use of Aramaic in the Japanese. 23. A peculiar system of logograms developed within the Pahlavi scripts ( developed from the variant of the Arabic alphabet. 24. Written Akkadian included phonetic symbols from the Sumerian syllabary, together with logograms that were read as whole words. 25. Chinese logograms extensively in its writing systems, with most of the symbols carrying the same or similar meanings. 26. Chinese characters and Japanese kanji are logograms ; some Egyptian hieroglyphs and some graphemes in cuneiform script are also logograms. 27. Chinese characters and Japanese kanji are logograms; some Egyptian hieroglyphs and some graphemes in cuneiform script are also logograms . 28. Maya writing used logograms complemented by a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function to modern Japanese writing. 29. Sources suggest that it is a mixture of pictograms, ideograms, and logograms as the nsibidi article already notes. 30. The vast array of logograms and the memorization of what they mean are major disadvantages of logographic systems over alphabetic systems.
