Noun:

எழுத்து தொகுதி,

alphabets's Usage Examples:

The fact that the Phoenician Vau was retained in the Greek alphabets, and the vowel v added, shows that when the alphabet was introduced the sound denoted by was still in full vigour.

Western calligraphy can be traced back to the Roman alphabet, but several other societies, including the Mayans, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, and Persians, have used calligraphy alphabets to beautifully express the written word.

Other letters, however, have been taken over from the Runic and Latin alphabets.

The sign x was kept in the western group for the guttural spirant in E, which was written X*; but, as this spirant occurred nowhere else, the combination was often abbreviated, and X was used for X precisely as in the Italic alphabets we shall find that F f develops out of a combination FH.

Indian alphabets have spread to Tibet, Cambodia, Java and Korea.

When these specially Indian features have been allowed for, Baler contends that the symbols borrowed from the Semitic alphabet can be carried back to the forms of the Phoenician and Moabite alphabets.

The runes are found in all Teutonic countries, and the Romans were in close contact with the Germans on the Rhine before the beginning I For further details of these alphabets, see Conway, The Italic Dialects, ii.

standard alphabets and calls for new letters.

In Phoenician itself and in the other Semitic alphabets the position of the middle legs of the W is altered so that the symbol takes such forms as or V or w, ultimately ending sometimes in a form like K laid sideways, he.

This seems to imply that the two alphabets had a common history up to a certain point, but parted company before they were fully developed.

Among his works on the subject of Assyriology are: Recueil d'alphabets des ecritures cuneiformes (1860); Expose des elements de la grammaire assyrienne (1868); Le Syllabaire assyrien (2 vols.

Indian influence is predominant as far as Cambodia (though with a Chinese tinge), Indian alphabets being employed and the Buddhism being of the Sinhalese type, but in Annam and Tongking the Chinese script and many Chinese institutions are in use.

Synonyms:

phonetic alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, letter of the alphabet, script, Greek alphabet, Roman alphabet, manual alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, finger alphabet, Hebrew script, Cyrillic, Arabic alphabet, Armenian alphabet, Latin alphabet, character set, letter, sound alphabet, alphabetic character, Hebraic alphabet, Armenian,

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