- alphabetic writing
- nouna writing system based on alphabetic characters• Syn: ↑alphabetic script• Hypernyms: ↑orthography, ↑writing system
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
alphabetic writing
Look at other dictionaries:
WRITING — (Scripts, Materials, and Inscriptions). SCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see alphabet ). Here, the pictographic, cuneiform, and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Writing system — Predominant scripts at the national level, with selected regional and minority scripts. Alphabet Latin Cyrillic Latin Greek … Wikipedia
writing — /ruy ting/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that writes. 2. written form: to commit one s thoughts to writing. 3. that which is written; characters or matter written with a pen or the like: His writing is illegible. 4. such characters or… … Universalium
Alphabetic principle — The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any … Wikipedia
alphabetic script — noun a writing system based on alphabetic characters • Syn: ↑alphabetic writing • Hypernyms: ↑orthography, ↑writing system … Useful english dictionary
writing system — noun a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols • Syn: ↑orthography • Derivationally related forms: ↑orthographic (for: ↑orthography) • Hypernyms: ↑writing … Useful english dictionary
Writing — The art of writing must have been known in the time of the early Pharaohs. Moses is commanded to write for a memorial in a book (Ex. 17:14) a record of the attack of Amalek. Frequent mention is afterwards made of writing (28:11, 21, 29, 36; 31 … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Writing — is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non… … Wikipedia
Alphabetic — Al pha*bet ic, Alphabetical Al pha*bet ic*al, a. [Cf. F. alphab[ e]tique.] 1. Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement. English has an … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
writing — The exact origins of writing are lost, probably forever, in the mists of time. Modern scholars still disagree where and when the first substantial examples of writing appeared, some favoring ancient Egypt, others ancient Mesopotamia. Those in… … Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary
