From what I have read in the past the Chinese language seems to be descended from Babylonian cuneiform which is also a pictograph language.
Fascinating, I had never heard this, and I've studied Chinese Language History. Here an excerpt from Wikipedia:
Emerging in Sumer in the late 4th millennium BC (the Uruk IV period), cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use grew smaller, from about 1,000 in the Early Bronze Age to about 400 in Late Bronze Age (Hittite cuneiform). The system consists of a combination of logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic and syllabic signs.[2]I read the wikipedia article on Chinese Characters and there is no mention of a connection with cuneiform. In fact there is a history of older and older versions of Chinese going back to script written on bones for divination (Oracle Script), but this was over a thousand years after early ceneiform.
I found this site that makes this claim:
"Only five independent writing systems have been produced in the entire human history. Sumerian, Egyptian, Harappan, Mayan, and Chinese. Among them only Chinese has survived into modern age. All others have long since ceased to be functional. From Egyptian and Sumarian, the proto-Canaanite was developed in 1750 BC and became precursor of all the alphabetic languages