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History of the alphabet

Alphabetic writing – is a writing system in which glyphs called letters generally correspond to individual sounds in a language (phonemes), as opposed to symbols representing syllables or whole words.

Consonantal alphabets, Alphabets with vowels & Letter names and order

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Consonantal alphabets

31 related topics

Alphabets with vowels

37 related topics

Letter names and order

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Alphabets in other media

11 related topics

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Predecessors

Consonantal alphabets

Alphabets with vowels

Letter names and order

Graphically independent alphabets

Alphabets in other media

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History of the alphabet

Nodes137
Edges136
Triples10
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014599
Components1

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alphabet greek writing phoenician letters latin used bc first semitic letter alphabets vowels consonants modern hieroglyphs scripts sounds alphabetic order

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
alphabetical orderinstance ofsometimes independent attributes0.80text
letter name or the languages written in it including associated pronunciation of those lettersinstance ofsometimes independent attributes0.80text
the wave model may complement or sometimes even supplement the tree modelinstance oftheories0.80text
the latter being more focused on establishing a hierarchy of languages rather than identifying relationships between languagesinstance oftheories0.80text
the Old Turkic alphabetinstance ofinto the alphabets of North Asia0.80text
the Old Uyghur alphabetinstance ofinto the alphabets of North Asia0.80text
the Mongolian writing systemsinstance ofinto the alphabets of North Asia0.80text
and the Manchu alphabet.The Georgian scripts appear to be part of either the Persian-Aramaic or Greek family.The Kharosthiinstance ofinto the alphabets of North Asia0.80text
Brahmic scripts are descended from the Aramaic scriptinstance ofinto the alphabets of North Asia0.80text
after the Achaemenid invasion of the Indus Valley in the 6th century BCinstance ofinto the alphabets of North Asia0.80text

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