- marks, boxes, or
other symbols instead of
Javanese characters. An
abugida (/
ˌɑːbuːˈɡiːdə, ˌæb-/ ; from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ) –
sometimes also
called alphasyllabary...
- (Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ) is a
script used as an
abugida (alphasyllabary) for
several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan
languages of...
-
syllables or moras. (The 19th-century term
syllabics usually referred to
abugidas rather than true syllabaries.) Afaka –
Ndyuka Alaska or
Yugtun script –...
- The Thai
script (Thai: อักษรไทย, RTGS: akson thai) is the
abugida used to
write Thai,
Southern Thai and many
other languages spoken in Thailand. The Thai...
- vowels—from both
abugidas and abjads,
which only need
letters for consonants.
Abjads generally lack
vowel indicators altogether,
while abugidas represent them...
- text. The
Brahmic scripts, also
known as
Indic scripts, are a
family of
abugida writing systems. They are used
throughout the
Indian subcontinent, Southeast...
- vowels, are
represented among the
basic graphemes.
Abjads differ from
abugidas,
another category defined by Daniels, in that in abjads, the
vowel sound...
-
script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an
abugida script that is used by
Tamils and
Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia...
-
reserve the
general term for
analytic syllabaries and
invent other terms (
abugida, abjad) as necessary. Some
systems provide katakana language conversion...
- consonants,
while pure
alphabets have
letters for both
consonants and vowels.
Abugidas use
characters that
correspond to consonant–vowel pairs.
Syllabaries use...
