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| A phonemic writing system that represents only consonants and not vowels |
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| A phonemic writing system that represents consonants with full graphemes and vowels with diacritics |
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| One of a set of nondistinctive ways of writing a particular grapheme; the distribution of allographs in a writing system is predictable |
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| A phonemic writing system that represents both vowels and consonants with full graphemes |
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| An extra mark on a written symbol, representing either some other characteristic of its pronunciation (in a phonetic transcription system) or a vowel (in an abugida) |
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| An individual symbol used for writing; may represent a segment, syllable, a morpheme, or some other unit of linguistic structure |
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| Morphographic Writing System (i.e. Logographic) |
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| A writing system that relies predominantly on the representation of the meanings of words. Each symbol usually represents a morpheme. |
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| Writing systems used for most purposes |
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| Phonemic Writing System (i.e. Alphabetic) |
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| A phonographic writing system in which each symbol represents a singel segment like a consonant or a vowel |
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| Phonographic Writing System |
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| A writing system that relies predominantly on the representation of the sounds of words |
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| Stylized drawing of concrete objects used as characters in certain writing systems to represent the idea of the object iconically |
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| A principle found in some writing systems whereby a picture of a particular object is used to represent the sounds (but not the meaning) of the name of the object |
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| The set of characters used in a given syllabic writing system |
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| A phonographic writing system in which each symbol represents roughly one syllable of the language |
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| Creating visual symbols on a surface to record linguistic forms; the representation of language in a physical medium other than sound |
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