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A grapheme is the fundamental unit in written language. Examples of graphemes include alphabetic letters, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.
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x A   Æ Latin alphabet
A (named a /ˈeɪ/, plural aes) is the first letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives. The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also called 'aleph), the first...
x E E Œ  
E (named e /ˈiː/, plural ees) is a vowel and the fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish languages. ⟨E⟩...
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x O Прото семитско Auge Œ  
O (named o /ˈoʊ/, plural oes) is the fifteenth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The letter was derived from the Semitic `Ayin (eye), which represented a consonant, probably [ʕ], the sound represented by the Arabic letter ع called ...
x C C   Latin alphabet
C (named cee /ˈsiː/) the third letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is used to represent one hundred in Roman numerals. ⟨C⟩ comes from the same letter as ⟨G⟩. The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph...
x H      
H (named aitch /ˈeɪtʃ/, plural aitches, or haitch /ˈheɪtʃ/) is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The Semitic letter ⟨ח⟩ (ḥêṯ) most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (ħ). The form of the letter probably stood for...
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