Analphabet orABC is a scrievin seestem, a series o seembols for scrievin. A seembol in an alphabet is for ordinar cried a "letter". In an alphabet, ilka digraph can be a seembol for a soond or morpheme.
The namealphabet comes fraeAlpha anBeta, the first twa letters in the Greek alphabet.
The alphabet uised in this airticle is theLaitin alphabet (or "Roman alphabet"). It wis first uised in Auncient Rome for tae scrieveLaitin.[1][2] Mony leids uises the Laitin alphabet. Alphabets uise letters for scrievin, an aw letters cry a soond (a vowel or a consenant), an ither scrievin seestems dinnae uise letters for aw soonds.
Ither scrievin seestems daena uise seembols that means a soond, but insteid uises seembols that means a wird or a syllab. Lang syne, mony culturs uised sic scrievin seestems, but thay are maistly juist uised bi leids that fowk speaks inAsie the day.
TheCheenese scrievin is cried "pictographic" acause thair scrievin evolved frae uisin picturs for tae represent wirds or ideas insteid o soonds.
Japanese uises a mixter-maxter o the Cheenese scrievin an twa syllabarie criedhiragana ankatakana. Modren Japanese aft uisesromaji an aw, that's the Japanesesyllabary scrievedd in the Roman alphabet.
Asyllabary is a seestem o scrievin that is seemilar tae an alphabet. A syllabary uises ae symbol for tae represent ilka syllab o a wird, insteid o ae seembol for ilka letter o the wird.[3] For exemple, a syllabary wad uise ae seembol for tae mean the syllab "ga", insteid o twa letters o the alphabet "g" an "a".
Korean uised the Cheenese scrievin lang syne, but thay uise an alphabet kent as "Hangul" the day. Cheenese chairacters can still be seen in a few offeecial govrenment documents. This is kent as "Hanja".
