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Record 1 2012-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
  • Toponymy
DEF

A script belonging to the alphabetic writing system in which a single letter or di- or trigraph in principle represents a single phoneme or diphthong.

OBS

Roman, Greek, Cyril­lic, Thai, Arabic and Hebrew are alphabetic, but the latter two are defec­tive, i.e. mainly con­sonant scripts. In (alphabetic) Kore­an, letters are graphi­cally organized in roughly square syllab­ic units.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
  • Toponymie
DEF

Écriture appartenant à un système à référence phonétique ou phonologique, dans lequel les caractères, qu'il s'agisse de lettres uniques, de digrammes ou de trigrammes, représentent des phonèmes uniques.

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