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| x Alphabet |
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Georgian alphabet |
An alphabet is a standardized set of letters — basic written symbols or graphemes — each of which roughly represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in...
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| Greek alphabet | |||
| Armenian alphabet | |||
| Cyrillic alphabet | |||
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| x Abjad |
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Arabic alphabet |
An abjad is a type of writing system in which each symbol always or usually stands for a consonant; the reader must supply the appropriate vowel. It is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the common terms consonantary or consonantal...
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| Hebrew alphabet | |||
| Nabatean alphabet | |||
| Aramaic alphabet | |||
| Phoenician alphabet | |||
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| x Abugida |
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Devanāgarī |
An abugida (pronounced /ˌɑːbuːˈɡiːdə/, from Ge‘ez አቡጊዳ ’äbugida), also called an alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system which is based on consonants, and in which vowel notation is obligatory but secondary. This contrasts with an alphabet...
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| Ge'ez alphabet | |||
| Burmese alphabet | |||
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| x Syllabary | Cherokee syllabary |
A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.
Languages that use syllabic writing include...
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| Katakana | |||
| Hiragana | |||
| Nü Shu | |||
| Vai script | |||
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| x Semi-syllabary |
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Northeastern Iberian script |
A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary. The term has traditionally been extended to abugidas, but for the purposes of this article it will be restricted to scripts where some letters are...
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| Southeastern Iberian script | |||
| Southwest script | |||
| Celtiberian script | |||
| Old Persian cuneiform script | |||
| x Logogram |
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Egyptian hieroglyphs |
A logogram, or logograph, is a grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language). This stands in contrast to phonograms, which represent phonemes (speech sounds) or combinations of phonemes, and determinatives...
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| Cuneiform script | |||
| Kanji | |||
| Hanja | |||
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| x Logosyllabic writing | Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing |
Logosyllabic Writing is a system of writing that uses a combination of logographic and syllabic signs. One example of this kind of writing is the Mayan writing system where syllables are combined as glyphs into a larger whole word. Thus words are...
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