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    boxes, or other symbols. Scriptio continua (Latin for 'continuous script'), also known as scriptura continua or scripta continua, is a style of writing...
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  • in the writing systems which preceded it, but soon the practice of scriptio continua, continuous writing in which all words ran together without separation...
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  • Thumbnail for Lontara script
    right. Traditionally, the script is written without word breaks (scriptio continua) and with little to no punctuation. A typical Lontara text may contain...
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  • soon displaced by the scriptio continua. In Latin, spaces and interpuncts came often to be dropped in favor of scriptio continua, and were not used to...
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  • Thumbnail for Javanese script
    Traditionally, the script is written without spaces between words (scriptio continua) but is interspersed with a group of decorative punctuation. Javanese...
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  • word in Spanish Longest word in Turkish Number of words in English Scriptio continua Sesquipedalianism Donau­dampf­schiffahrts­elektrizitäten­haupt­be...
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  • Thumbnail for Rasm
    known as Arabic skeleton script. This concept is somewhat similar to scriptio continua in the Latin script, where all spaces and other punctuations is omitted...
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  • Thumbnail for Palmyrene alphabet
    written without spaces or punctuation between words and sentences (scriptio continua style). Two forms of the Palmyrene alphabet were developed: The rounded...
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  • Tokenization is particularly difficult for languages written in scriptio continua, which exhibit no word boundaries, such as Ancient Greek, Chinese...
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  • Thumbnail for Gurmukhi
    Gurbani and other Sikh scriptures were written in the traditional scriptio continua method of writing the Gurmukhi script known as ਲੜੀਵਾਰ laṛīvāră, where...
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  • preceding vowel.[citation needed] This was needed because writing was scriptio continua, where spacing was not yet used as a word divider.[citation needed]...
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  • Thumbnail for Decimal separator
    Cifrão Decimal floating point Decimal place Decimal representation Scriptio continua Rasm Space (punctuation) Decimal section numbering Dot-decimal notation...
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  • Thumbnail for Greek language
    'whatever') from ότι (óti, 'that'). Ancient Greek texts often used scriptio continua ('continuous writing'), which means that ancient authors and scribes...
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  • Thumbnail for Great uncial codices
    uncial style of calligraphy using only majuscule letters, written in scriptio continua (meaning without regular gaps between words). Though not entirely...
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  • Thumbnail for Codex Sinaiticus
    time. Throughout the New Testament portion, the words are written in scriptio continua (words without any spaces in between them) in the hand-writing style...
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    from [d], [p] from [b] or [k] from [ɡ]). Tartessian is written in scriptio continua, which complicates the identification of individual words. Tartessian...
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  • writing is left to right. This script is written without wordspacing (scriptio continua) and with little to no punctuation. "Coda syllables", or consonants...
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  • sentences, and paragraphs would be a continuous string of letters (scriptio continua), often with line breaks in the middle of words. Bookmaking was an...
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  • Thumbnail for Codex Alexandrinus
    text is written continuously, with no division of words (known as Scriptio continua), but some pauses are observed in places in which a dot should be...
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  • Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Longest word in English Scriptio continua "Beschluss im Schweriner Landtag: Längstes Wort Deutschlands hat ausgedient"...
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  • Thumbnail for Manuscript
    Christian era, manuscripts were written without spaces between the words (scriptio continua), which makes them especially hard for the untrained to read. Extant...
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  • Thumbnail for Pronuntiatio
    punctuation, their writing consisted of one long stream of words called scriptio continua. During the editing process, modern rhetors must go through three...
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  • Thumbnail for Batak script
    pangolat: Batak is normally written without spaces or punctuation (as scriptio continua). However, special marks or bindu are occasionally used. They vary...
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  • texts before the separation of words by spaces was common. In the scriptio continua then used, a group of letters might have separate meanings as a single...
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  • word-spacing property. Most classical Latin texts were written in scriptio continua, a continuous string of characters without spaces to mark word boundaries...
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  • occasions. Chinese – particularly classical Chinese – is thus a form of scriptio continua and it is common for words to be split between lines with no marking...
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  • be external memory aids. These written works were also written in scriptio continua; words were connected without spaces and sentences were connected...
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  • Thumbnail for Balinese script
    information. Text are written left to right without word boundaries (Scriptio continua). There is also a set of "holy letters" called aksara modre which...
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  • became common. During antiquity, most scribes in the West wrote in scriptio continua, i.e. without punctuation delimiting word boundaries. Around the 5th...
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  • Thumbnail for Ardās
    Manuscript fragment of an early version of the Sikh ardas prayer in calligraphic, scriptio continua Gurmukhi script, ca.1730's....
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