[Sigia-l] is there a word

[Conal Tuohy]

Gunnar wrote:

> As I understand it Christina wants a term for the "set of 
> icons". Such a set 
> would have some common "denominator" - by design for instance 
> - which would 
> render them recognizalby "kin". This likeness need not be 
> linguistically 
> understood, but may just be "by design".

Since these symbols are pictographs (or at least, ideographs), if you were really desperate for a single English word you could maybe call such a set "a pictography" or "an ideography". 

http://www.online-dictionary.biz/english/vocabulary/reference/Ideography.asp

"The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc."

Or, adding to "grapholect", you could get "pictographolect" or "pictolect" for short. :-)