Alphabet
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██ Laitin Alphabet
██ Cyrillic alphabet
██ Arabic alphabet
██ Brahmic alphabets
██ Mixty: Laitin an Cyrilic Alphabet
██ Mixty: Latin an Arabic Alphabet
██ Mixty: no alphabet or ither alphabet
██ Ither alphabet
██ Nane-alphabetic writin seestems
An alphabet or ABC is a writin seestem, a list o seembols for writin. A seembol in an alphabet is for ordinar cried a "letter". In an alphabet, ilka digraph can be a seembol for a soond or morpheme.
The name alphabet comes frae Alpha an Beta, the first twa letters in the Greek alphabet.
The alphabet uised in this airticle is the Laitin alphabet (or "Roman alphabet"). It wis first uised in Auncient Rome for tae write Laitin. Nouadays, mony leids uises the Laitin alphabet an aw, an it's the maist widely-uised alphabet.
[edit] Alphabets
A list o alphabets an examples o the leids that uises thaim::
- Laitin alphabet (or "Roman alphabet")
- Greek alphabet, uised for Greek
- Arabic alphabet, uised for Arabic an Farsi
- Hebrew alphabet, uised for Hebrew an Yiddish
- Cyrillic alphabet, that is based on the Greek alphabet, uised for Russian an Bulgarian
- Hangul, uised for Korean
[edit] Ither writin seestems
Ither writin seestems disa uise seembols that means a soond, but insteid uises seembols that means a wird or a seelable. Lang syne, mony culturs uised sic writin seestems, but they are maistlins anerly uised bi leids that fowk speaks in Asia the nou.
- The Cheenese writin is cried "pictographic" acause their writin evolved frae uisin picturs for tae represent wirds or ideas.
- Japanese uises a mixter-maxter o the Chinese writin an twa seelabaries cried hiragana an katakana. Modren Japanese aft uises romaji an aw, that's the Japanese seelabary written in the Roman alphabet.
- A seelabary is a seestem o writin that is seemilar tae an alphabet. A seelabary uises ae symbol for tae represent ilka seelable o a wird, insteid o ae seembol for ilka letter o the wird. For example, a seelabary wad uise ae seembol for tae mean the seelable "ga", insteid o twa letters o the alphabet "g" an "a".
- Korean uised the Cheenese writin lang syne, but they uise an alphabet the nou.
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