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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters — basic written symbols or graphemes — each of which roughly represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Alphabets are classified according to how they indicate vowels:
The word "alphabet" came into Middle English from the Late Latin word Alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Ancient Greek Αλφάβητος Alphabetos, from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and meant ox and house respectively. There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being Latin, deriving from the first true alphabet, Greek. Most of them are composed of lines (linear writing); notable exceptions are Braille, fingerspelling (Sign language), and Morse code. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What five letter words use the entire alphabet? Q. What is the fewest number of 5 letter words, and what words are they, that use the entire english alphabet? Each word must be exactly 5 letters long. Asked by Socks - Thu Nov 29 01:58:26 2007 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments A. 1. above - fight - junks - lumpy - squad - wizen - Crux's 2. vixen - crazy - badge - swamp - quick - thief - jolly 3. vortex - pique - dozen - balmy - witch - fudge - jacks 4. quays - waxen - prize - vocal - might - joked - brief Answered by wow_bill - Thu Nov 29 13:55:53 2007 How hard is it to learn the Arabic alphabet? Q. I just bought a college textbook on an introduction to Arabic and I want to learn the alphabet. How hard is it to learn? How long does it take to learn? Asked by unknown - Mon Aug 23 00:01:00 2010 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments A. It's most certainly NOT as easy as learning the English alphabet. However, with the right method it should only take a few hours to get down the basics. Here are a few essential rules to get you started: 1. Arabic is written from right to left. Not only whole sentences, but also the words themselves are written from right to left. 2. The Arabic script is a cursive script. That means that it is a lot like our handwriting, where we connect all the letters in a word to the adjoining letters. Even in our own handwriting we have to mkae some adjustments to be able to connect say the "r" with the "t" in the handwritten word "start". Likewise, in Arabic the letters change their shapes depending on whether they are: a) isolated (i.e. on their… [cont.] Answered by Max Maddocks - Mon Aug 23 03:19:50 2010 Why do police ask drunk drivers to spell the alphabet backwards?
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