Language code: `zbl`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code zbl

The table below provides technical details for the Bliss, Blissymbolics, Blissymbols language, designated by the zbl code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code	`zbl`
Name	Bliss, Blissymbolics, Blissymbols
Text direction	Left-to-Right
Related languages	Picture Communication Symbols (PCS)SymbolStixSona
Key facts	Invented by Charles K. Bliss in the 1940s under the name “Semantography”Built from about 100 basic ideographs that combine productively into thousands of complex symbolsUsed worldwide as an augmentative-and-alternative communication (AAC) system for people with speech or language impairmentsThe writing is purely semantically based and makes no reference to pronunciation or phonologyA subset of Blissymbols was added to Unicode 13.0 (code range U+1D800–U+1DAAF).
Sample phrase	{HELLO}, {HOW} {YOU}{?}
Character encodings	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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The Bliss, Blissymbolics, Blissymbols language, identified by the code zbl, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Constructed' by its type.

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