These cleverly arrange into around 140 neat syllables which block into words - three writing systems in one, alphabetic, syllabic and logographic.
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Likewise, alphabetic and syllabic scripts frequently make some use of logograms and logographic values.
This kind of system is more difficult to learn than a logographic language, such as Chinese, in which written symbols generally correspond to whole words, rather than parts of words.
Each graph stood for a whole word, and the writing was therefore logographic, or in less common parlance, lexigraphic.
The writing system was logographic, where one sign or sign-group was used for each term or concept without adding grammatical elements.