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A modern ideogram, but probably much older than the previous entry. It is drawn around words or sentences that are spoken. Again it is used most often in the world of comic strips, schoolbooks, brochures, and advertising.
The type of signs most closely related as far as meaning is concerned is speech bands, i.e. signs that begin at the mouth of figures drawn on paper and reliefs in the ancient Indian civilizations of Mexico. These speech bands have been most readily used by the Aztecs, who drew them like  .
Compare with  , a detail from the door of the church of Rogelösa, Sweden, from the twelfth century. The "speech bands" or "flames" are coming from the mouth of the devil.
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