Alphabet birman — Birman Caractéristiques Type Alphasyllabaire Langue(s) Birman Direction De gauche à droite Historique Époque Du … Wikipédia en Français
alphabet — [al′fə bet΄] n. [LL(Ec) alphabetum < LGr alphabētos < Gr alpha + bēta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet] 1. the letters of a language, arranged in a traditional order 2. a system of characters, signs, or symbols used to indicate… … English World dictionary
alphabet — [n] letters of a writing system ABCs, characters, elements, fundamentals, graphic representation, hieroglyphs, ideograph, morphemes, phonemes, pictograph, rune, signs, syllabary, symbols; concept 276 … New thesaurus
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Alphabet — [ William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia .] An alphabet is a standardized set of letters mdash basic written symbolsmdash each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in… … Wikipedia
Alphabet Effect — Some communication theorists (notably those associated with the Toronto School of Communications , such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong and more recently Robert K. Logan) have advanced hypotheses to the effect that phonetic writing… … Wikipedia
Alphabet — It seems probable that the Gypsies did not bring any writing system with them when they came to Europe. The alphabet given in Jean Paul Clébert s book The Gypsies is spurious. Publications in Romani in the 20th century have used the Latin or… … Historical dictionary of the Gypsies
Alphabet City, Manhattan — [ Lower Manhattan.] Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single letter names. It is bordered… … Wikipedia
Alphabet — Ein Alphabet (auf griechisch ἀλφάβητος alphábētos) ist eine geordnete und abgeschlossene Menge von grafischen Zeichen (genannt Buchstaben), die über orthographische Regeln zu Wörtern verknüpft eine zugehörige Lautsprache schriftlich darstellen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
