Alphabet
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AnAlpha betorABCis ascrievin seestem,a leet o seembols for scrievin. A seembol in an Alpha bet is for ordinar cried a "letter".In an Alpha bet, ilka digraph can be a seembol for a soond or morpheme.
The nameAlpha betcomes fraeAlphaanBeta,the first twa letters in theGreek Alpha bet.
The Alpha bet uised in this airticle is theLaitin Alpha bet(or "Roman Alpha bet" ). It wis first uised inAuncient Romefor tae writeLaitin.Mony leids uises the Laitin Alpha bet an aw, an it's the maist widely-uised Alpha bet the nou. Alphabets uise letters for scrievin, an aw letters cry a soond (a vowel or a consenant), an ither scrievin seestems dinnae uise letters for aw soonds.
Alphabets
[eedit|eedit soorce]A leet o some Alpha bets an examples o leids at uise thaim:
- Laitin Alpha bet(or "Roman Alpha bet" ), uised furEuropeen leids,American leids,an mony soothernAfricaen leids
- Greek Alpha bet,uised furGreek
- Arabic Alpha bet,uised furArabicanFarsi
- Ebreu Alpha bet,uised furEbreuanYiddish
- Cyrillic Alpha bet,foondit on the Greek Alpha bet, uised furRoushie,Bulgarian,an mony ither leids aroond the auldSoviet Union.
- Hangul,uised forKorean
- Phoenician Alpha bet,uised fur the auncientPhoenician leid,which developed intae the Greek,Aramaic,Tifinagh,Brahmi,an ither writin seestems.
Ither writin seestems
[eedit|eedit soorce]Ither writin seestems daena uise seembols that means a soond, but insteid uises seembols that means a wird or aseelable.Lang syne, mony culturs uised sic writin seestems, but thay are maistlins anerly uised bi leids that fowk speaks inAsiethe nou.
- TheCheenesewritin is cried "pictographic" acause thair writin evolved frae uisin picturs for tae represent wirds or ideas.
- Japaneseuises a mixter-maxter o the Cheenese writin an twa seelabaries criedhiraganaankatakana.Modren Japanese aft uisesromajian aw, that's the Japaneseseelabarywritten in the Roman Alpha bet.
- Aseelabaryis a seestem o writin that is seemilar tae an Alpha bet. A seelabary uises ae symbol for tae represent ilkaseelableo 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 Alpha bet "g" an "a".
- Koreanuised the Cheenese writin lang syne, but thay uise an Alpha bet the nou.
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