12. Alphabet
See also 236. LANGUAGE ; 383. SPELLING ; 428. WRITING .
- abecedarian, abecedary
- a teacher or learner of an alphabet.
- abecedarium
- an alphabet.
- alphabetarian
- a person who is learning the alphabet.
- alphabetics
- the science of alphabets.
- alphabetism
- the representation of the sounds of speech in consistent graphic form.
- alphabetology
- the study or science of alphabets. — alphabetologist, n .
- analphabetic
- 1. unable to read or write.
- 2. descriptive of a language written without an alphabet; that is, with a syllabary (Cherokee), in hieroglyphics (ancient Egyptian), in ideograms (Chinese) , or in pictograms (American Indian).
- charactery
- 1. a system of symbols used to represent ideas.
- 2. expression by means of such symbols.
- graphemics
- the study of written symbols or combinations of symbols representing letters of the alphabet or single phonems.
- literalism
- the practice or theory of following the letter or literal sense of something written. — literalist, n .
- metagraphy
- the art of transliteration. — metagraphic, adj .
- transliteration
- the spelling of a word in one language with the alphabet of another language.
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