Why do some languages use pictures instead of letters?
Picture-Words Journey
Why do some languages use pictures instead of letters?
You've been staring at letters your whole life — A, B, C, all the way to Z. Twenty-six little shapes that mean sounds. But open a book in Chinese or Japanese, and suddenly you're looking at tiny pictures. A square with legs. A person under a roof. A sun rising behind a tree. What's going on?
It starts thousands of years ago, before anyone had invented letters. Ancient people needed to remember things — how many sheep, whose field, which god. So they drew pictures. In China, they carved a circle with a dot for "sun." They drew a tree for "tree." Simple pictures that meant the thing itself.
