The problem of phonetic denotation having thus been solved, the syllabic signs were combined so as to form compound phonograms on the principle of the rebus.
The phonograms were then greatly reduced in number, simplified in form, and became what we know to-day as letters.
A succession of these phonograms then represents a series of sounds, or syllables, and we have a real, though somewhat primitive and cumbrous, written language.
A process has also been devised for making copies of the phonograms in metal by electro-deposition, so as to produce permanent records.
A little box with double walls has been introduced for transmitting the phonograms by post.
Reference has been made in the Chinese system of writing to their use of picture forms or ideographic signs, in association with the phonograms to explain the meaning or particular use of these signs.
In the adoption by the Japanese of the Chinese characters in the Ka-ta-ka-na syllabary, a certain number of phonogramswere selected which would give the sound of the unions of consonants and vowels in the Japanese language.
The teacher's chart of phonograms as she works it out for herself may be something like this.
Phonograms are written on the board; pupils supply consonants and write out the words.
Such sentences as the following may be given after a number of short "a" phonograms are mastered: The cat sat on a mat.
Have a number of phonograms and three or four sets of consonants in envelopes.
For reviewing phonogramsand fixing the vowel sounds as well, the following game is used.
As soon as possible introduce a number of phonograms into the same story.
From the beginning review daily the phonograms taught.
Write on the board lists of words ending in various phonograms and let the children re-write them, arranging in columns according to phonograms.
By searching throughout the whole mass of normal inscriptions, earlier than the periods of Greek and Roman rule when great liberties were taken with the writing, probably no more than one hundred different phonograms can be found.
Biliteral phonograms are very rare as phonetic complements, nor are two biliteral phonograms employed together in writing the radicals of a word.
The number of phonograms is very restricted, but some signs have all these powers.
As far back as the Ist Dynasty, phonograms (see below) were in full use.
As Egyptian roots seldom exceeded three letters, there was no need for triliteral phonogramsto spell them.
Some few signs ideographic of a group of ideas are made to express particular words belonging to that group by the aid of phonograms which point out the special meaning.
The most important phonograms are the uniliteral or alphabetic signs, twenty-four in number in the Old Kingdom and without any homophones: later these were increased by homophones to thirty.
Here the series of cards for the positive adjectival forms are, as usual, brown, the phonograms for -er and -est in lighter and darker shades of brown respectively.
He shook in Nogam's face the half-sheet of notepaper on which the Chinese phonograms were drawn.
His study of the Chinese phonograms at length resulted in the transformation of his careworn face by a slowly dawning smile, the gleeful smile of a mischief-loving child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phonograms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
