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In short: no.
Long story: written language began as drawings but evolved to become mere symbols linked to sounds rather than units with litteral meaning.
Pictogram = a buffalo means a buffalo
Ideogram = the bird means "pharaoh protects"
Logogram=the sound for "bird"
Alphabet/Adjab=weird signs without any sense can be added together to make sounds, effectively letting you write your spoken language in devanagari or arabic or whatever (as long as all sounds exist in the alphabet).
French poets tried to blur the lines again by creating Calligrams; poems with a written form, making the poem into a drawing. Arabs also are found of using Calligraphy to "draw" something through words. As far as functionnality is concerned, written languages stay linked to spoken languages, so no.

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