Website definitions of Alphabet
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"Alphabet"
a segmental writing system having symbols for individual sounds, rather than for syllables or morphemes. In a true alphabet, consonants and vowels are written as independent letters, in contrast to an abugida or an abjad. In a perfectly phonemic alphabet, phonemes and letters would be predictable in both directions; that is, the sound of a word could be predicted from its spelling and vice-versa. A phonetic alphabet is also predictable in this way, however it uses separate letters for separate allophones, whereas a phonemic alphabet may describe allophones of the same phoneme using a single letter.
SIL International Contributors, "ScriptSource: Alphabet," accessed September 11, 2023, https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=glossary#alph. [Visit]
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PsychLing Contributors. "Alphabet." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 30 Aug. 2023, psylng.org/glossary/term/alphabet-script. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
PsychLing (2023, August 30). Alphabet. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/glossary/term/alphabet-script
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