Editing Bajoran (section)

==Language==
Spoken Bajoran has many dialects and is used as the official language of Bajor and its colonies.

The Bajoran written language consists of square symbols which are composed of thick lines. There are a large number of different symbols which can be used in any of four rotations (normal, horizontally flipped, vertically flipped, 180 degree rotation). This gives anywhere between 50 to 200 symbols in the written language.  The number of characters in the script implies that its either syllabic or logosyllabic.  Modern Bajoran text usually requires pairs of symbols to write words and concepts, although odd numbers of characters are also used in bajoran texts (possibly as abbreviations).  Both ancient and modern Bajoran text has been called ideographic - each character or a pair of characters represents a single thought pictured, however as with Chinese (most chinese characters represent syllables and have a semantic component, they are very few true ideograms), this is probably a misconception.  Given the possible number of symbols, Bajoran writing is likely syllabic or logosyllabic.