If you want to learn more about how Blissymbolics is structured, you can watch a series of workshops called The structure of Blissymbolics, produced by Margareta Jennische at Uppsala University, Sweden.
If you are interested in learning more about Blissymbols, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to get more information and direction to option for Bliss training.
Blissymbolics makes use of core symbols (Bliss-characters), many of which are intuitive and pictographic. They can be arranged to produce Bliss-words that can represent complex and abstract, yet easy-to-understand meanings. There are around 100 basic symbols, which can be combined endlessly to form new concepts. Nouns can be changed into verbs or adjectives with the addition of an indicator, and there are also simple past and future tenses. Bliss has simple, elegant, logically based rules, that make it ideal as a non-phonetically based language.
Welcome to the Bliss Workshop! This workshop is for those who wish to teach Bliss to others. From time to time a new session will be added, and throughout, tips will be given regarding teaching Bliss to those who use it for their face-to-face communication and their Blisslnternet communication.
This page is just a brief overview. For more and updated information and a deeper understanding, we recommend that you read this document on Proceedings Characteristics of Blissymbolics.
When you think about teaching Bliss, there are a few primary factors to remember:
Key Characters (or Key Symbols), Bliss-characters and Bliss-words
Language Structure
Generative
Please trfer to the Fundamental Rules of Blissymbolics document for more detailed information about the making of Bliss.
(In Bliss Fundamental Rules Amendment you can find an updated description of the procedures for how the development of new Blissymbol vocabulary is managed.)
