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Yerkish

Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas.

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Created by
Ernst von Glasersfeld
Glottolog
None
IETF
art-x-yerkish
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
Purpose
Animal languageYerkish · Yerkish
Setting and usage
Use a keyboard to punch keys with logograms

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Yerkish

Nodes21
Edges20
Triples43
Avg. degree1.9
Density0.095238
Components1

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Yerkish

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related to Context · 19
Yerkish → Atlanta, Center, Duane Rumbaugh, Emory University, Ernst, Georgia, Georgia State University, Glasersfeld, Lana, Primates, Researchers, Robert, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, The, The Yerkish, This, Von Glasersfeld, Yerkes, Yerkes National Primate Research
related to Lexigram concept · 5
Yerkish → Each, English, For, In, Research
Purpose · 2
Yerkish → Animal languageYerkish, Yerkish
Created by · 1
Yerkish → Ernst von Glasersfeld
Glottolog · 1
Yerkish → None
IETF · 1
Yerkish → art-x-yerkish
ISO 639-3 · 1
Yerkish → None (mis)
Setting and usage · 1
Yerkish → Use a keyboard to punch keys with logograms
Users · 1
Yerkish → 4 (apes)[citation needed]
is a · 1
Yerkish → artificial language developed for use by non-human primates

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language lexigram lexigrams lana keyboard keys communicate primates use von used created first research researchers glasersfeld symbols chimpanzees food artificial

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
YerkishCreated byErnst von Glasersfeld1.00infobox
YerkishGlottologNone1.00infobox
YerkishIETFart-x-yerkish1.00infobox
YerkishISO 639-3None (mis)1.00infobox
YerkishPurposeAnimal languageYerkish1.00infobox
YerkishPurposeYerkish1.00infobox
YerkishSetting and usageUse a keyboard to punch keys with logograms1.00infobox
YerkishUsers4 (apes)[citation needed]1.00infobox
Yerkishis aartificial language developed for use by non-human primates0.90text
foodinstance ofInterfaceKeyboardA lexigram keyboard was created for Lana with each key representing various nouns or verbs0.80text
eatinstance ofInterfaceKeyboardA lexigram keyboard was created for Lana with each key representing various nouns or verbs0.80text
appleinstance ofInterfaceKeyboardA lexigram keyboard was created for Lana with each key representing various nouns or verbs0.80text

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