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Parent topics
- Writing system [r]: A set of signs used to represent a language, such as an alphabet, or a set of rules used to write a language, such as conventions of spelling and punctuation. [e]
- Writing [r]: The process of recording thoughts or speech in a visually or haptically retrievable manner. [e]
- Written language [r]: The communication and representation of a language by means of a writing system. [e]
- Reading (process) [r]: Process of understanding and gaining knowledge from written text. [e]
- Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
Subtopics
- Letter (alphabet) [r]: Symbol in an alphabetic script, usually denoting one or more phonemes; for example, in the English alphabet the letter <a> can represent the phoneme /æ/ as in mat and /eɪ/ as in mate. [e]
- Cyrillic alphabet [r]: The alphabet used for a number of languages, mostly Slavonic ones, including Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian. [e]
- Greek alphabet [r]: Set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [e]
- Latin alphabet [r]: Most widely used alphabet, the standard script of most languages that originated in Europe, where it developed in ancient Rome before 600 BC from the Etruscan alphabet (in turn derived from the Greek alphabet). [e]
- A (letter) [r]: The first letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e]
- B (letter) [r]: The second letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e]
- C (letter) [r]: The third letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e]
- D (letter) [r]: The fourth letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e]
- E (letter) [r]: The fifth letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e]
- F (letter) [r]: The sixth letter of the English alphabet. Its name is pronounced eff. [e]
- G (letter) [r]: The seventh letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- H (letter) [r]: The eighth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. [e]
- I (letter) [r]: The ninth letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- J (letter) [r]: The tenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet, and historically the last of the 26 letters to be added. [e]
- K (letter) [r]: The eleventh letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- L (letter) [r]: The twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. [e]
- M (letter) [r]: The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. [e]
- N (letter) [r]: The fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. [e]
- O (letter) [r]: The fifteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. [e]
- P (letter) [r]: The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- Q (letter) [r]: The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- R (letter) [r]: The 18th letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- S (letter) [r]: The 19th letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- T (letter) [r]: The 20th letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- U (letter) [r]: The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- V (letter) [r]: The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- W (letter) [r]: The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- X (letter) [r]: The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- Y (letter) [r]: The twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- Z (letter) [r]: The twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- Acute accent [r]: A diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. [e]
- Grave accent [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Apostrophe [r]: Punctuation marking absence of a letter and plurals, among a large number of other purposes. [e]
- Umlaut [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Braille [r]: System of writing and printing for blind or visually impaired people, in which varied arrangements of raised dots representing letters and numerals are identified by touch. [e]
- Character (keyboard) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chinese writing system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- English spellings [r]: Lists and tables of English words, showing pronunciation. [e]
- Font [r]: Add brief definition or description
- French words in English [r]: French words and phrases in English, including a catalog. [e]
- GH [r]: A digraph (a two-letter grapheme) used with various different values in a number of languages using the Latin alphabet. [e]
- Hieroglyph [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Johannes Gutenberg [r]: German goldsmith and inventor of movable type printing. [e]
- Keyboard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Logograph [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Orthography of Irish [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Orthography [r]: Art or study of correct spelling and grammar according to established usage. [e]
- Spoken language [r]: An example of language produced using some of the articulatory organs, e.g. the mouth, vocal folds or lungs, or intended for production by these organs; alternatively, the entire act of communicating verbally - what people mean or intend, the words they use, their accent, intonation and so on. [e]
- Pangram [r]: A sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. [e]
- Phoneme [r]: Theoretical unit of language that can distinguish words or syllables, such as /b/ versus /m/; often considered the smallest unit of language, but is a transcription convention rather than a true unit in most models of phonology since the 1960s. [e]
- Phonetics [r]: Branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. [e]
- Printing press [r]: Device for making multiple paper copies of text, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s. [e]
- Type writer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Typography [r]: Add brief definition or description
