An alphabet is a standardized set of written letters that represent particular spoken sounds in a language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken syllables, while logographic systems assign symbols to spoken words, morphemes, or other semantic units.
Alphabets are usually associated with a standard ordering of letters. This makes them useful for purposes of collation, which allows words to be sorted in a specific order, commonly known as the alphabetical order. It also means that their letters can be used as an alternative method of “numbering” ordered items, in such contexts as numbered lists and number placements. There are also names for letters in some languages. This is known as acrophony.
Non-logographic writing systems, such as alphabets and syllabaries, are phonemic: their individual symbols represent sounds directly and lack any inherent meaning.
In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logo 'word', and gramma 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.
The first type, and the type most often associated with Chinese writing, are pictograms, which are pictorial representations of the morpheme represented, e.g. 山 for '
mountain'.
The second type are the ideograms that attempt to visualize abstract concepts,
such as 上 '
up' and 下 'down'. Also considered ideograms are pictograms with
an ideographic indicator; for instance, 刀 is a pictogram meaning 'knife', while 刃 is
an ideogram meaning 'blade'.
Simple
name; denoting either ‖ that which is spoken, or the picture of it in writing. sounds directed towards form are called as alphabets.
More primary and simple; whether ‖
such apert sounds as are fra∣med by a free emission of the breath through the organs of speech, or
such closed sounds in the pronouncing of which the breath is intercepted by some collision or closure amongst the in∣struments of speech.
free sounds , without any stricture in the vocal tract.
closed sounds , that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract,
The arrangement of alphabets in
an order inside the set individually according to the sequence. Rules directed towards the assignment of sounds to symbols
These strokes underlie the Virtual strokes and the form the real states take. By the process of abstraction we
create these strokes in our
mind either virtually or semantically to understand or apprehend it in to our memories.
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CHARACTER, Figure, Note, Letter, Cyphre, Orthography.
single
sound but different forms