(1) These cleverly arrange into around 140 neat syllables which block into words - three writing systems in one, alphabetic, syllabic and logographic .(2) The writing system was logographic , where one sign or sign-group was used for each term or concept without adding grammatical elements.(3) Each graph stood for a whole word, and the writing was therefore logographic , or in less common parlance, lexigraphic.(4) Likewise, alphabetic and syllabic scripts frequently make some use of logograms and logographic values.(5) 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.
