Alphabet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AlphabetAn alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. [2] Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, for instance, and logographic systems use characters to represent words, morphemes, or ...
Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Arabic_alphabetThe Arabic alphabet ( Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-abjadīyah l-ʿarabīyah or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf l-ʿarabīyah, IPA: [ʔalʔabd͡ʒadijja lʕarabijja] ), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing Arabic. It is written from right to left ...
Vai – Atlas of Endangered Alphabets
www.endangeredalphabets.net › alphabets › vaiNov 30, 2018 · The Vai script is a rare bird indeed – an indigenous, non-colonial script that has been accepted, adopted and used to such a degree and over such an extended history that it may be misleading to include it among other endangered writing systems. Certainly, together with N’Ko, it is one of the most successful indigenous scripts in West ...
Vai syllabary - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai_syllabaryThe Vai syllabary is a syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language by Momolu Duwalu Bukele of Jondu, in what is now Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia. Bukele is regarded within the Vai community, as well as by most scholars, as the syllabary's inventor and chief promoter when it was first documented in the 1830s. It is one of the two most successful indigenous scri…