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121 relations: Abjad, Abugida, Allograph, Alpha, Alphabet, Ampersand, Arabic alphabet, Arabic numerals, Aristotle, At sign, Beta, Boustrophedon, Brahmic scripts, Braille, Bronze Age, Calligraphy, Cherokee syllabary, Chinese character strokes, Chinese characters, Consonant, Consonant cluster, Constructed writing system, Cree syllabics, Cuneiform, David Diringer, Defective script, Diacritic, Digraphia, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Electronic document, English orthography, Epigraphy, Fingerspelling, Flag semaphore, Formal language, Geʽez script, Glyph, Grapheme, Greek alphabet, Handedness, Hangul, Hanunoo script, Hebrew language, Hindustani language, Hiragana, Ideogram, Indus script, Inherent vowel, ISO 15924, Japanese language, ... Expand index (71 more) »
Abjad
An abjad (أبجد), also abgad, is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving the vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader.
Abugida
An abugida (from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ)sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabetis a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, similar to a diacritical mark.
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Allograph
In graphemics and typography, the term allograph is used of a glyph that is a design variant of a letter or other grapheme, such as a letter, a number, an ideograph, a punctuation mark or other typographic symbol. Writing system and allograph are typography and writing systems.
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Alpha
Alpha (uppercase, lowercase) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.
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Ampersand
The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram, representing the conjunction "and".
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Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet (الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.
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Arabic numerals
The ten Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the most commonly used symbols for writing numbers.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
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At sign
The at sign,, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget.
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Beta
Beta (uppercase, lowercase, or cursive; bē̂ta or víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet.
Boustrophedon
Boustrophedon is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.
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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems.
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Braille
Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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Calligraphy
Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. Writing system and Calligraphy are writing.
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Cherokee syllabary
The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language.
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Chinese character strokes
Strokes are the smallest structural units making up written Chinese characters.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
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Consonant cluster
In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel.
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Constructed writing system
A constructed writing system or a neography is a writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture like a natural script. Writing system and constructed writing system are writing.
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Cree syllabics
Cree syllabics are the versions of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Cree dialects, including the original syllabics system created for Cree and Ojibwe.
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Cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.
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David Diringer
David Diringer (16 June 1900 – 13 February 1975) was a British linguist, palaeographer and writer.
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Defective script
A defective script is a writing system that does not represent all the phonemic distinctions of a language.
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Diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. Writing system and diacritic are typography.
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Digraphia
In sociolinguistics, digraphia refers to the use of more than one writing system for the same language. Writing system and digraphia are writing systems.
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Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.
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Electronic document
An electronic document is a document that can be sent in non-physical means, such as telex, email, and the internet.
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English orthography
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
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Epigraphy
Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.
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Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands.
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Flag semaphore
Flag semaphore (from the Ancient Greek σῆμα 'sign' and -φέρω (-) '-bearer') is a semaphore system conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands.
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Formal language
In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to a specific set of rules called a formal grammar.
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Geʽez script
Geʽez (Gəʽəz) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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Glyph
A glyph is any kind of purposeful mark. Writing system and glyph are typography.
Grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. Writing system and grapheme are typography.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
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Handedness
In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous.
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Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Hangeul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
Hanunoo script
Hanunoo, also rendered Hanunó'o, is one of the scripts indigenous to the Philippines and is used by the Mangyan peoples of southern Mindoro to write the Hanunó'o language.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.
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Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language. Writing system and ideogram are writing systems.
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Indus script
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script and the Indus Valley Script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation.
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Inherent vowel
An inherent vowel is part of an abugida (or alphasyllabary) script.
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ISO 15924
ISO 15924, Codes for the representation of names of scripts, is an international standard defining codes for writing systems or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used for the written form of one or more languages"). Writing system and ISO 15924 are writing systems.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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John DeFrancis
John DeFrancis (August 31, 1911January 2, 2009) was an American linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and professor emeritus of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.
Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Kulitan
Kulitan, also known as súlat Kapampángan and pamagkulit, is one of the various indigenous suyat writing systems in the Philippines.
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Language
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.
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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Writing system and Latin alphabet are typography.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Letter (alphabet)
In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. Writing system and letter (alphabet) are typography.
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Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. Writing system and letter case are typography.
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Libyco-Berber alphabet
The Libyco-Berber alphabet or the Libyc alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary Islands, to write ancient varieties of the Berber language like the Numidian language in ancient North Africa.
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Linear B
Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
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Logogram
In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.
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Maya script
Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered.
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Mesoamerican writing systems
Mesoamerica, along with Mesopotamia and China, is one of three known places in the world where writing is thought to have developed independently.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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Mora (linguistics)
A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable.
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Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.
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Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.
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Morse code
Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.
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Nsibidi
Nsibidi (also known as Nsibiri, Nchibiddi or Nchibiddy) is a system of symbols or proto-writing developed by the Ekpe secret society that traversed the southeastern part of Nigeria.
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Ogham
Ogham (Modern Irish:; ogum, ogom, later ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).
Olmecs
The Olmecs were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization.
Optical telegraph
An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals (a form of optical communication).
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation. Writing system and orthography are writing systems.
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Palaeography
Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from παλαιός,, 'old', and γράφειν,, 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of the analysis of historical writing systems, the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysis of historic penmanship, handwriting script, signification and printed media. Writing system and Palaeography are writing and writing systems.
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Pasigraphy
A pasigraphy (from Greek πᾶσι pasi "to all" and γράφω grapho "to write") is a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept (rather than a word or sound or series of sounds in a spoken language). Writing system and pasigraphy are writing systems.
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Penmanship
Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument. Writing system and Penmanship are writing.
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Percent sign
The percent sign (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100.
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Peter T. Daniels
Peter T. Daniels (born December 11, 1951) is a scholar of writing systems, specializing in typology.
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Phoenician alphabet
The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. Writing system and Phoenician alphabet are typography.
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Phoenician language
Phoenician (Phoenician) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
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Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
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Phonetic complement
A phonetic complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Japanese, and Mayan. Writing system and phonetic complement are writing.
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Place of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is a location along the vocal tract where its production occurs.
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Proto-cuneiform
The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing that emerged in Mesopotamia, eventually developing into the early cuneiform script used in the region's Early Dynastic I period.
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Proto-Sinaitic script
The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two inscriptions from Wadi el-Hol in Middle Egypt.
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Proto-writing
Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information.
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Reading
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. Writing system and Reading are writing systems.
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
Right-to-left script
In a script (commonly shortened to right to left or abbreviated RTL, RL-TB or R2L), writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left, proceeding from top to bottom for new lines.
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Segment (linguistics)
In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech".
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Semasiography
Semasiography ('writing with signs', from Greek 'signification' + 'writing') is the use of written symbols to "communicate information without the necessary intercession of forms of speech". Writing system and Semasiography are writing systems.
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Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Shorthand
Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.
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Sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words.
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Signaling (telecommunications)
In telecommunication, signaling is the use of signals for controlling communications.
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SignWriting
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages.
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Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (سِينَاء; سينا; Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.
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Sinosphere
The Sinosphere, also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, East Asian cultural sphere, or the Sinic world, encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically heavily influenced by Chinese culture.
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Spelling
Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. Writing system and Spelling are writing.
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Spoken language
A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.
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Stroke order
Stroke order is the order in which the strokes of a Chinese character are written.
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Substrate (printing)
Substrate is used in a converting process such as printing or coating to generally describe the base material onto which, e.g. images, will be printed.
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Sumerian language
Sumerian (Also written 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi.ePSD2 entry for emegir.|'native language'|) was the language of ancient Sumer.
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Syllabary
In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).
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Tengwar
The Tengwar script is an artificial script, one of several scripts created by J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings.
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Transcription (linguistics)
Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of spoken language in written form. Writing system and Transcription (linguistics) are writing.
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Ugaritic
Ugaritic is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language.
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Varieties of Chinese
There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
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Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet (lit) is the modern writing script for Vietnamese.
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Vietnamese language
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.
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Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).
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Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
Word
A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible.
Writing
Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language. Writing system and Writing are writing systems.
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Writing system
A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. Writing system and writing system are typography, writing and writing systems.
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X-SAMPA
The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London.
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Yellow River
The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.
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Yi script
The Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ nuosu bburma) are two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi syllabary.
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References
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