Portal:Language/Language topic/July 2006



An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters &mdash; basic written symbols &mdash; 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 logographies, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable. Find out more...