abugida

An abugida, alphasyllabary, or syllabics is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels, or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel. Examples include the various scripts of the Brahmic family, Ethiopic Ge’ez, and Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. A typical abugida is Devanagari. There is no basic sign representing the consonant k; rather the unmodified letter क represents the syllable ka; th ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia II - Alphabet - Types Among segmental scripts (that is, scripts that use a separate glyph for each phoneme, commonly called "alphabets"), one may distinguish abjads, which only record consonants and were first developed by the Egyptians as part of their hieroglyphic script; true alphabets which record consonants and vowels separately, first developed by the Greeks; and abugidas, in which the vowels are indicated by diacritical marks or systematic modification of the form of the consonants, first developed by the Indians. Examples of present-day abjads are the Ara ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Abjad

An abjad is a type of writing system in which there is one symbol per consonantal phoneme, sometimes also called a consonantary. Abjads differ from alphabets, in that in an abjad, each basic grapheme represents a consonant, although vowels may be indicated by vowel marks on the basic graphemes. An alphabet has basic graphemes for both consonants and vowels. Abjads also differ from abugidas. In an abjad, each basic grapheme represents only a consonant. In an abugida, each basic grapheme represents a syllable consisting of a cons ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Kavi

Kavi is the oldest script of Javanese language, and is derived from the Indic Brahmi. A more recent script was Jawi. These scripts were used in the Singhasari kingdom of Java. The more recent scripts were extant in the Majapahit Empire of Java, Bali, Borneo and Sumatra. The scripts are abugida which represent a syllable ending in a vowel, just as in the Sanskrit of Vedic times and the Theravada Buddhist language Pali, thus annotation (virama) is needed to represent a pure consonant. Kavi< ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Kharoṣṭhī

The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, is an ancient abugida (a kind of alphabetic script) used by the Gandhara culture of historic northwest India to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages (the Gandhara kingdom was located along the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan between the Indus River and the Khyber Pass). It was in use from the middle of the 3rd century BC until it died out in its homeland around the 3rd century AD. It was also in use along the Silk Road where there is some evidence it may have survived until the 7th c ...

abugida: Encyclopedia - Siddham

Siddham (Sanskrit, accomplished or perfected) — referred to in Japanese as bonji (梵字) — is the name of a North Indian script used for writing Sanskrit. Descended from the Brahmi script via the Gupta script, which also gave rise to the Devanāgarī script as well as a number of other Asian scripts such as Tibetan script. Siddham is an abugida or alphasyllabary rather than an alphabet because each character indicates a syllable. If no other mark occurs then the short 'a' is assumed. Diacritic marks indicate the oth ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Cham alphabet

The Cham script is used to write Cham, an Austronesian language spoken by the Cham people in Vietnam and Cambodia. Cham has about 230,000 speakers. The Cham script is one of the first scripts to develop from the early Brahmi alphabet of India, beginning by 200 AD. Like all the Brahmic family, it is a syllabic alphabet, and is thus classed as an "abugida". It is written horizontally, and left to right, as in English. The Cham now live in two isolated groups: Western Cham in Cambodia, and Eastern Cham in Vietnam. Ea ...

abugida: Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī

Devanāgarī (देवनागरी —, pronounced as [d̪e:vən̪ɑɡəɾi], but in English pronounced as [ˌdeɪvəˈnɑ:ɡəɹi:]) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is an abugida writing system used to write, either along with other scripts, or exclusively, several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Biha ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Alphabet

An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logograms, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable. The word "alphabet" itself comes from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. There are dozens of alphabets in use today. Most o ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Brahmic family

The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia, Tibet and Southeast Asia. The individual abugidas may be called Brahmic scripts or Indic scripts. Brahmic family - History. Brahmic scripts are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India, which in turn is believed to be descended from a Semitic script, thus they probably have a common ancestor with the European scripts. However, some academics (see references in Rastogi 1980:88-98) believe that the Viramkhol in ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Logogram

A logogram, or logograph, is a single written character which represents a word or a morpheme (a meaningful unit of language). This stands in contrast to other writing systems, such as syllabaries, abugidas, abjads, and alphabets, where each symbol primarily represents a sound or a combination of sounds. In stenography, a logograph or logogram is a single character which represents a word. Chinese characters, used in Chinese and Japanese, make up a logographic system. Written Korean used a subset of Chinese charac ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Burmese alphabet

The Burmese abugida is a script in the Brahmic family used in Myanmar for writing Burmese, Mon, and Kayin (Karen). The characters are rounded in appearance, because the traditional palm leaves used for writing would have been ripped by straight lines. Like English, it is written from left to right. There are about 33 consonants က (pronounced ka) to ဠ (pronounced la). However, the last letter in the alphabet (အ; aa), although recognized as a consonant, is actually a vowel. Since the a is the onl ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Bengali script

The Bengali script is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts whose use is associated with the Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri and Sylheti languages. While it is very similar to Devanagari, it is less blocky and presents a more sinuous shaping, and is derived from a precursor of that script called Nagari. The modern script was formalized in 1778 when it was first typeset by Charles Wilkins. There are some minor differences between the version of the script used for Assamese and that used for the other languages: rô (Bengali র; Assames ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia - Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Canadian Aboriginal syllabic writing (often "syllabics" for short) is, despite its name, a family of alphabets (specifically, abugidas) used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Athabaskan, and Inuit language families. Canadian syllabics are presently used to write all of the Cree dialects from Naskapi (spoken in Quebec) to the Rocky Mountains, including Eastern Cree, James Bay Cree, Swampy Cree and Plains Cree. It is used to write other Algonquian languages, such as the major Ojibwe dialects in ...

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abugida: Encyclopedia II - Amharic language - Grammar

Amharic language - Pronouns. Amharic language - Nouns. Amharic nouns can be primary or derived. A noun like əgər 'foot, leg' is primary, and a noun like əgr-äɲɲa 'pedestrian' is a derived noun. Amharic nouns can have a masculine or feminine gender. There are several ways to express gender. An example is the old suffix -t for feminity. Th ...

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