A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as the consonants.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

Zhuyin developed out of a form of Chinese shorthand based on Chinese characters in the early 1900s and has elements of both an alphabet and a syllabary.

In the wider sense, an alphabet is a script that is segmental at the phoneme level — that is, it has separate glyphs for individual sounds and not for larger units such as syllables or words.

) Cyrillic is basically a true alphabet, but has syllabic letters for ( я, е, ю ); Coptic has a letter for.

Today the Rotokas alphabet has only twelve letters.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.

The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters ( letters with a dot added ) to represent sounds from Persian and English.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

The Arabic alphabet has 28 basic letters.

A single constellation may contain fifty or more stars, but the Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters ; when these ran out, Bayer began using lower-case Latin letters: hence s Carinae ( s of the Keel ) and d Centauri ( d of the Centaur ).

In fact, the English alphabet has fewer consonant letters than English has consonant sounds, so digraphs like " ch ", " sh ", " th ", and " zh " are used to extend the alphabet, and some letters and digraphs represent more than one consonant.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

English has a comparatively deep orthography within the Latin alphabet writing system, with a complex orthographic structure that employs spelling patterns at several levels: principally, letter-sound correspondences, syllables, and morphemes.

They feature many letters that appear to have been borrowed from or influenced by the Greek alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet.

Utopias original edition included the symmetrical " Utopian alphabet " that was omitted from later editions ; it is a notable, early attempt at cryptography that might have influenced the development of shorthand.

The Phoenician alphabet also influenced the Hebrew and Aramaic scripts, which follow a vowel-less system.

He influenced what children in American schools now do today ; that is say the pledge of allegiance, alphabet, and the teaching of the multiplication table.

Changes in alphabet and spelling were heavily influenced by the advent of printing and continental printing practices.

Piriya Krairiksh, an academic at the Thai Khadi Research institute, notes that the stele's treatment of vowels suggests that its creators had been influenced by European alphabet systems ; thus, he concludes that the stele was fabricated by someone during the reign of Rama IV himself, or shortly before.

The language is written using the Thai alphabet and is also heavily influenced by Thai, as it is the principal language of writing, education, government, and most official situations.

The Ottoman Turkish language, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, was influenced by Persian and Arabic and used the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.

Hitz hypothesizes that the alphabet was influenced by the Lepontic alphabet of Lugano, itself descended from the Etruscan alphabet, reading some Lepontic proper names like Setu ( Lepontic Setu-pokios ), Attec ( Lepontic Ati, Atecua ), Uenit ( Lepontic Uenia ), Tepu ( Lepontic Atepu ).

In Korean, a similar category of typefaces for the Korean alphabet hangul was called myeongjo ( the Korean reading for the same Chinese characters “”) until recently, influenced by the Japanese term.

Many Cappadocians shifted to Turkish altogether ( written with the Greek alphabet, Karamanlidika ); where Greek was maintained ( Sille, villages near Kayseri, Pharasa town and other nearby villages ), it became heavily influenced by the surrounding Turkish.

The development of these systems, considered a " divine science " by adherents, may have been influenced by the teachings of Sufism ; like some schools of Sufism, they found esoteric meanings in the alphabet.

Under this theory, the alphabet was invented to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt ( see Middle Bronze Age alphabets ), and was at least influenced by the alphabetic principles of the Egyptian hieratic script.

Maghrebi ( or Maghribi ) script is a cursive form of the Arabic alphabet influenced by Kufic letters that developed in the Maghreb ( North Africa ) and later in Spain, particularly Andalusia.

Bulgarian scholars and works influenced most of the Slavic world, spreading Old Church Slavonic, the Cyrillic and the Glagolithic alphabet to Kievan Rus ', medieval Serbia and medieval Croatia.

Because of the gap in the written record between the disappearance around 1200 BC of Linear B and the earliest inscriptions in the later Greek alphabet around 750 BC, the further development of dialects remains opaque.

The creation of true vowel letters was the most revolutionary linguistic contribution of the Greeks to the development of the alphabet.

Finney County began about 1880 as Buffalo County and Sequoyah County, named after Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian responsible for the development of the Cherokee alphabet.

Eventually it was decided that a universal alphabet, with the same symbol being used for the same sound in different languages was the ideal, and development of the International Phonetic Alphabet progressed rapidly up to the turn of the 20th century.

Besides these abstract ten Sefirot, which are conceived only ideally, the twenty-two letters of the alphabet produced the material world, for they are real, and are the formative powers of all existence and development.

* The letters i and j, previously written as a single letter, began to be distinguished ; likewise for u and v. This was a common development of the Latin alphabet during this period.

" Despite the development in 1941 of the Joint Army / Navy Phonetic Alphabet and its replacement, circa 1956, by the NATO phonetic alphabet ( currently used by U. S. military, civil aviation, telecommunications, and some law enforcement agencies ), the LAPD and other law enforcement and emergency service agencies throughout the United States continue to use it.

Important developments took place at this time, including the mission of Greek monks Cyril and Methodius, the development of the Glagolitic alphabet ( an early form of the Cyrillic script ), and the use of Old Church Slavonic as the official and literary language.

The holy book of Islam, al-Qur ' ān, has played a vital role in the development of the Arabic language, and by extension, calligraphy in the Arabic alphabet.

A major factor in the development of the church in Kartli was the introduction of the Georgian alphabet.

The development of a written Georgian culture was made possible by the creation of the Georgian alphabet for evangelization purposes.

He divided and defined the stages by technological inventions, such as use of fire, bow, pottery in the savage era ; domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era ; and development of the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.

The mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius was especially important as their development of the Cyrillic alphabet allowed the spread of worship in the Old Church Slavonic language.

Another development of this period was the development of Coptic, a form of the Ancient Egyptian language written with the Greek alphabet supplemented by several signs to represent sounds present in Egyptian which were not present in Greek.

A precursor to the development of the alphabet, this process represents one of the most important developments of writing.

The Greek alphabet has had several cursive forms in the course of its development.

Turkey has become a major business partner to many Central Asian Turkic states, helping with the reform of higher education, the introduction of the Latin alphabet, economic development and commerce.

This includes on the Flowers Estate development ( the road names are flower names, with one for each letter of the alphabet ) which benefits from a very big playing field.

The alphabet was adapted to the local spoken Old East Slavic language, leading to the development of indigenous East Slavic literary language alongside the liturgical use of Church Slavonic.

Before the development of lower-case letters in the 8th century, texts in the Latin alphabet were written in a single case, which is now considered to be capital letters.

Some scholars, such as Harald Haarmann, believe that the vowel letters of Meroitic are evidence for an influence of the Greek alphabet in its development.