Michael Everson's Alphabets of Europe Evolution of alphabets, animation by Prof. Robert Fradkin at the University of Maryland How the Alphabet Was Born from...
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of phonetic symbols. Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and...
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local alphabets across the Greek-speaking world to become the standard form of the Greek alphabet. When the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, they...
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Old Italic scripts (redirect from Old Italic alphabets)
derived from one of these alphabets by the 2nd century AD. The Old Italic alphabets ultimately derive from the Phoenician alphabet, but the general consensus...
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which is used for Roman letters. Spelling alphabets also exist for Greek and for Russian. Spelling alphabets are called by various names, according to...
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Cyrillic script (redirect from Cyrillic Alphabet)
Encyclopædia Britannica, Major alphabets of the world, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, 2008, O.Ed. "The two early Slavic alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic...
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common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet. These Latin-script alphabets may discard letters...
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The Kyrgyz alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kyrgyz language. Kyrgyz uses the following alphabets: The Cyrillic script is officially used in...
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the Aramaic and Samaritan alphabets, several Alphabets of Asia Minor, and the Archaic Greek alphabets. The Phoenician alphabet proper uses 22 consonant...
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Kurdish is written using either of two alphabets: the Latin-based Bedirxan or Hawar alphabet, introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932 and popularized...
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S (section Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets)
letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name...
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alphabet. The ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code is a rarely used variant that differs in the code words for digits. Although spelling alphabets are...
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spellings. The Arabic and Hebrew alphabets have similarities because they are both derived from the Aramaic alphabet, which in turn derives either from...
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into writing International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): the most widespread such system (See Category:Phonetic alphabets for other phonetic transcription systems)...
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Three alphabets are used to write Kazakh: the Cyrillic, Latin and Arabic scripts. The Cyrillic script is used in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. An...
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Palmyrene and Mandaic alphabets, which formed the basis of the historical scripts of Central Asia, such as the Sogdian and Mongolian alphabets. The Old Turkic...
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authors distinguish between consonantal alphabets, with the term abjad coined for them in 1996, and "true alphabets" with letters for both consonants and...
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Rune (redirect from Runic alphabets)
instead of runes. A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic...
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"Alphabet" (Amanda Lear song), 1977 Alphabet. Alphabets., a 2006 album by American experimental rock band Trophy Scars Alphabet Inc., the holding company for...
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Fingerspelling (redirect from Manual alphabet)
systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets) have often been used in deaf education and have...
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Latin script (redirect from Latin alphabet letters)
basic Latin alphabet, which are the same letters as the English alphabet. Latin script is the basis for the largest number of alphabets of any writing...
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Among alphabets for natural languages the English,[36] Indonesian, and Malay alphabets only use the 26 letters in both cases. Among alphabets for constructed...
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one of the two alphabets used to write modern standard Serbian, the other being Gaj's Latin alphabet. Reformed Serbian based its alphabet on the previous...
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Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud...
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O (section Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets)
Greek alphabets, which adopted the letter "omicron" to represent the vowel /o/. The letter was adopted with the value in the Old Italic alphabets, including...
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Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets. North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin alphabet. This superseded...
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Psi (Greek) (redirect from 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet)
expressing /ps/ in the Eastern alphabets, but /kʰ/ in the Western alphabets (the sound expressed by Χ in the Eastern alphabets). In writing, the early letter...
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R (section Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets)
or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others...
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Phoenician alphabet, with the exception of the letter Samekh, whose Greek counterpart Xi (Ξ) was used only in a sub-group of Greek alphabets, and with...
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Writing system (section Alphabets)
systems, which include alphabets and syllabaries, use graphemes that correspond to sounds in the corresponding spoken language. Alphabets use graphemes called...
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