https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkish
is an example of some Yerkish lexigrams pictures without listing the meanings.
Lexigram summary
Summary of concept words from 'Lexigram listing' below.
Basic noun concepts
- Food
- Time
- Thing
- Color
- Count
- Piece
- Place
Specific (mostly) nouns
- 63x food noun (specific) (a relatively specific noun for a type of food or drink, eg 'sweet potato')
- 21x name (eg Sue)
- 18x places (specific) (eg Sue's room)
- 11x places (general) (eg hilltop, house, mid way)
- 9x containers (eg Fridge, bowl, trash)
- 7x food noun (general) (eg medicine, water, juice, fruit, vegetable, candy, chow))
- 45x tools and devices (eg TV, can opener, blanket, key, picture, puzzle, paper, book; note that some of these are also media that 'contain' information)
- 1x vehicles (eg car)
- 16x types of plants and animals, and plant parts (eg dog, pine needle)
- 11x other non-living physical objects (eg rock, money, fire, ice, light)
- 14x body parts and clothing (eg shoe, foot)
- 1x Mental state-related nouns (surprise, secret)
- 1x events (shot)
- 1x activities (sleep, work, play)
- 5x general times (night, today, tomorrow, yesterday)
- 1x Interpersonal (visitors)
- 3x other (shop, noise, swimming)
and adjectives/adjectivish nouns/verbs:
- 1x manipulative state (broken)
- Swelling
- body state: Sick
- Electric
adverbial-ish adjectives:
note: these counts weren't done very carefully and are probably slightly off, but not way off)
Mental states
Generic activity
Time
- Then
- Before
- New
- Until
- Now
- Later
Misc basic
- Yes, no
- Speech act-related
- Greetings (Hello, goodbye)
- Requests (Please, Thank You, sorry (also interpersonal state))
Location, presence
- Gone
- Here, there
- comparative location:
Personal pronouns
Misc prepositions
Quantifiers
Ownership-related
- Mine
- My
- Had
- Have
- yours
- Give (verb)
Determiners (and related pronnouns)
Comparison
- Different, Same
- More
- Little, Big
Questioners
Conjunctions
Deontic / evaluative
Logical
Conditional
Colors
Physical adjectival
Containment prepositions
Positional prepositions/tool activity state
Generic activity adjectival
Verbs
Note that many of these words can be more than one part of sleep (usually nouns and verbs; eg bite, sleep, surprise, count)
Interpersonal verbs
Travel, movement verbs
- Go
- Come
- Jump
- Kiss
- Agree
- Fight
- Slap
- Scare
Interpersonal travel/movement: Chase Hide
Manipulation verbs
- Open
- Grab
- Get
- Break
- Close
- Take
- Make
- Put
- Push
- Carry
- Throw
Speech verbs
- Talk
- Bark
- Say
- Point
- Show
- Said
- Draw
Sensory verbs
- Look
- Hurt (has deontic/evaluative component too)
- See
- Feel
- Touch
- Listen
Mental verbs
Travel/movement verbs
- Run
- Sit
- Walk
- Keep Away (also interpersonal)
Helper verbs
Other verbs
Lexigram listing
http://web.archive.org/web/20121104151252/http://www.greatapetrust.org/science/history-of-ape-language/interactive-lexigram/ has lists of a bunch of meanings of many Yerkish lexigrams (the meanings appear when you mouse over the squares), but the attached pictures seem to have been lost. The names are stored in http://web.archive.org/web/20120205001705/http://www.greatapetrust.org/science/history-of-ape-language/interactive-lexigram/data.xml . See 'lexigram listing' below for a list of them.
Group 1:
- Sweet Potato
- Tickle
- Orange
- Nathen
- Trailer
- Peanut
- Car
- Raisin
- Hamburger
- Sherman
- Egg
- Dig
- Kanzi
- Austin
- Fridge
- Sand Pile
- Ball
- Child Side
- Melon
- Coffee
- Question
- Jelly
- Sues Office
- Groom
- Log Cabin
- Chow
- Stick
- Sour Cream
- Rain
- Clover
- Lever
- Lemonade
- Sue
- Tomato
- Go
- Clara
- Banana
- A - Frame
- Outdoors
- Bill
- Fire
- TV
- Rock
- Sue's Gate
- Carrot
- Mushroom Trail
- M&M
- Umbrella
- Colony Room
- Food
- Cherries
- Orange Drink
- Key
- Open
- Yes
- Milk
- Hot Dog
- Burrito
- Crisscross Corners
- Blackberries
- Butter
- Velvet Plant
- Money
- Flat Rock
- Pee
- Apple
- Group Room
- Peaches
- Light
- Play Yard
- Orangutan
- No
- Can Opener
- Pine Needle
- Ice
- Rubber Band
- Lookout Point
- Green Bean
- Camper Cabin
- Matata
- Liz
- Dog
- Bedroom
- Orange Juice
- Coke
- Bite
- Bread
- Hug
- Water
- Straw
- Hide
- Shot
- String
- Pine Cone
- Gone
- Grab
- Chase
- Staff Office
- Juice
- Collar
- Blanket
- Cheese
- Hose
- Get
- Jump
- Turtle
- Goodbye
- Hello
- Lemon
- Gully Gusher
- Bark
- Surprise
- Talk
- Keyboard
- Sleep
- Celery
- Apricot
- Stethoscope
- Hurt
- Look
- Tree House
- Come
- Mid way
- Magnet
- Scrubby Pine Nook
- Nasa Building
- Hilltop
- Pear
Group 2:
- I
- Brush
- Said
- Ed
- Ear
- Can
- Broken
- Swelling
- For
- Sick
- New
- All
- Secret
- Ing
- Fish
- Break
- Mine
- Clippers
- Bathroom
- Until
- Medicine
- A
- See
- Different
- Will
- Work
- Picture
- Puzzle
- Do
- Stop
- Mask
- Here
- P-Suke
- Like
- Ready
- Chalk
- Pretend
- Close
- Take
- More
- Tea
- Need
- Nyota
- The
- That
- Say
- Joystick
- Run
- What
- Kiss
- Time
- Vegetable
- Little
- Down
- It
- Is
- Same
- Careful
- Agree
- Sit
- And
- There
- Make
- Sorry
- Right
- Be
- Crayon
- Feel
- Touch
- Electric
- Put
- Point
- Some
- Are
- Show
- Squirrel
- Thing
- Walk
- This
- How
- Elikya
- Night
- Pour
- Not
- Listen
- Visitors
- Watermelon
- Candy
- Box
- Was
- Wrong
- Wrong
- S
- Today
- Where
- Many
- We
- Before
- Me
- Blackboard
- Back
- Marshmellow
- Eat
- Wait
- Drink
- If
- Red
- Yellow
- Place
- These
- Bird
- Color
- Want
- Cooler
- Count
- yours
- Piece
- Fruit
- Up
- To
- Try
- Arm
- Had
- Blue
- Green
- Have
- My
- You
Group 3:
- Taco
- Peas
- Good
- Keep Away
- Happy
- Shoe
- Clay
- Noodles
- Duane
- Now
- Dessert
- Mirror
- Bowl
- Shop
- Coconut
- Towel
- Later
- Hammer
- Bad
- Ted
- Rob
- Camera
- TV Tape
- Mad
- Fight
- Trash
- Hot
- Cold
- Sugar
- Bunny
- Pomegranate
- Downstairs
- Soap
- Onion
- Nails
- Lighter
- Cereal
- Tool Room
- Jon
- Away
- Slap
- Salt
- Observation Room
- Yesterday
- Perrier
- Honeysuckle
- Mushroom
- Strawberries
- Paper
- Give
- Tamuli
- Paint
- Monster
- Potato
- In
- Leaf
- Kiwi
- Pillow
- Chicken
- Grapes
- Privet
- Panzee
- Pinky
- Yogurt
- Sponge
- Oil
- Bubbles
- Sparkler
- Hat
- Phone
- Push
- out
- River
- Jello
- Lana
- Backpack
- Kool Aid
- Wipies
- Noise
- Popsicle
- Spoon
- Play
- T Room
- Vacuum
- Toothbrush
- Cabinet
- Tomorrow
- Wash
- Swimming
- Panbanisha
- Middle Test Room
- Balloon
- Draw
- Carry
- Please
- Thank You
- Knife
- Snake
- Nest
- Toothpaste
- Shirt
- On
- Bug
- Off
- Blueberry
- Mouth
- Toy
- Fast
- Gorilla
- Vitamins
- Book
- Sugar Cane
- Lettuce
- Think
- Quiet
- Pineapple
- Plastic Bag
- House
- Scare
- Hand
- Head
- Foot
- Tummy
- Bottom
- Easy
- Throw
- Slow
- Big
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