1 Humans generated several kinds of hieroglyphical characters, such as the hieroglyphical characters in ancient Egypt and Indians' Mayan characters.

2 This article is about how different language systems, Hieroglyphical , or phonetic, influence the thought of the users of them.

3 The Chinese characters, originated from pictures, were people's depiction of things, or the original hieroglyphical characters.

4 After its development, other methods of word-formation were developed based on the hieroglyphical characters.

5 Or in Sir Thomas Browne's magnificent phrase, the speech of a community is for its members 'a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world'.