Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Ethiopic alphabet — writing system used to write the Geʿez (Geʿez language) literary and ecclesiastical language and the Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Apparently derived from Sabaean, a South Semitic (South Semitic alphabet)… … Universalium
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
Alphabet éthiopien — Alphasyllabaire éthiopien éthiopien Page de la Bible en éthiopien Caractéristiques Type Alphasyllabaire Langue(s) … Wikipédia en Français
Alphabet — [ William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia .] An alphabet is a standardized set of letters mdash basic written symbolsmdash each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in… … Wikipedia
ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
South Semitic alphabet — any of a group of minor scripts originating in the Arabian (Arabia, history of) Peninsula in about 1000 BC, possibly related to the writing system used in the Sinaitic inscriptions. These scripts, most of which were used only in the Arabian … Universalium
Ge'ez alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Ge ez abugida type=Abugida languages=Ethiopian Semitic languages (e.g. Ge ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Harari, etc.), Blin, Me en, formerly Oromo time=5th 6th c. BC to the present (abjad until ca. 330 AD) fam1=Proto… … Wikipedia
Meroitic alphabet — Meroitic Type Abugida Languages … Wikipedia
North Semitic alphabet — the earliest fully developed alphabetic writing system. It was used in Syria as early as the 11th century BC and is probably ancestral, either directly or indirectly, to all subsequent alphabetic scripts, with the possible exception of… … Universalium
Эфиопское письмо — Эфиопское письмо слоговое письмо, возникшее на основе южноаравийского консонантного алфавита (см. Письмо). Каждый знак выражает открытый слог С + V и имеет семь вариантов, различающихся вспомогательными чертами в зависимости от характера… … Лингвистический энциклопедический словарь
