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Abugida

An abugida (/ˌɑːbuːˈɡiːdə, ˌæb-/ ⓘ; from Geʽez: አቡጊዳ, 'äbugīda)—sometimes also called an alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabet—is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, like a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full…

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Development

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Abugida-like scripts

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Abugida

Nodes156
Edges155
Triples102
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012821
Components1

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Abugida

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related to Development · 16
Abugida → Aramaic, As, Brahmi, Brahmi's, Brāhmī, Compare, Historically, Indochinese, Japanese, Kharosthi, Kharoṣṭhī, Most Indian, South, Southeast Asia, The Kharosthi, They
related to Etymology · 14
Abugida → Arabic, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Daniels, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopic, Geʽez, Greek, In, Indic/Brahmic, Latin, Peter, The, The Geʽez
related to General description · 10
Abugida → As, But, CV, If, In, Indic, Letters, The, These, They
related to Terminology · 10
Abugida → An, As Daniels, Bright, Daniels, Furthermore, Indic, South Asian, The, This, William
related to Vowelled abjads · 10
Abugida → Abjads, Arabic, China, Hebrew, Iraq, Kurdish, The Arabic, Uyghur, Xinjiang, Yiddish
related to Ethiopic · 8
Abugida → AD, Children, Christianity, For, Geʽez, In, In Geʽez, Though
related to Family-specific features · 8
Abugida → Brahmic, Geʽez, In, In Canadian Aboriginal, India, Southeast Asia, The, There
related to Pahawh · 7
Abugida → Devanagari, For, It, Most, Pahawh, Pahawh Hmong, Thus
related to Meroitic · 6
Abugida → Brahmic, But, Drawing, For, Meroitic, Sudan
related to Phagspa · 5
Abugida → However, Mongol, Phagspa, The, Tibetan

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vowel consonant vowels script diacritics scripts consonants may inherent writing used written syllables brahmic letters indic abugidas syllable letter alphabet

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
schwainstance ofvowel marking on the letter for a short or neutral vowel0.80text
क in Hindi represents a syllable with the default vowelinstance ofA basic letter0.80text
in this case kainstance ofA basic letter0.80text
फ does not take on a final consonant soundinstance ofa default vowel consonant0.80text
phaṣ requires two aksharas to writeinstance ofThus a closed syllable0.80text
Abugidarelated to Abugida-like scriptsMeroitic0.60section
Abugidarelated to Abugida-like scriptsOld Nubian0.60section
Abugidarelated to Abugida-like scriptsThaana0.60section
Abugidarelated to DevelopmentAs0.60section
Abugidarelated to DevelopmentHistorically0.60section
Abugidarelated to DevelopmentThey0.60section
Abugidarelated to DevelopmentCompare0.60section

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