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“THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET”
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*an alphabet is a ‘standard set’ of ‘letters’ (basic written ‘symbols’/’graphemes’) that is used to write 1 or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent ‘phonemes’ (basic significant sounds) of the ‘spoken language’)*
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(…this is in contrast to other types of ‘writing systems’, such as ‘syllabaries’ (in which each character represents a ‘syllable’) and ‘logographies’ (in which each character represents a ‘word’, ‘morpheme’, or ‘semantic unit’)
(the ‘proto-canaanite’ script, later known as the ‘phoenician alphabet’, is the first fully phonemic script)
(thus the ‘phoenician alphabet’ is considered to be the first ‘alphabet’)
(the ‘phoenician alphabet’ is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including ‘arabic’, ‘greek’, ‘latin’, ‘cyrillic’, ‘hebrew’, and possibly ‘brahmic’)
(under a terminological distinction promoted by ‘peter t. daniels’, an “alphabet” is a script that represents both ‘vowels’ and ‘consonants’ as letters equally)
(in this narrow sense of the word the first “true” alphabet was the ‘greek alphabet’, which was developed on the basis of the earlier ‘phoenician alphabet’)
(in other ‘alphabetic scripts’ such as the original ‘phoenician’, ‘hebrew’, or ‘arabic’, letters predominantly or exclusively represent ‘consonants’; such a script is also called an ‘abjad’)
(a third type, called ‘abugida’ or ‘alphasyllabary’, is one where ‘vowels’ are shown by ‘diacritics’ or modifications of ‘consonantal base letters’, as in ‘devanagari’ and other ‘south asian scripts’)
(the ‘khmer alphabet’ (for ‘cambodian’) is the longest, with 74 letters)
(there are dozens of ‘alphabets’ in use today, the most popular being the ‘latin alphabet’ (which was derived from the ‘greek’))
(many languages use modified forms of the ‘latin alphabet’, with additional letters formed using ‘diacritical marks’)
(while most ‘alphabets’ have letters composed of ‘lines’ (‘linear writing’), there are also ‘exceptions’ such as the alphabets used in ‘braille’)
(‘alphabets’ are usually associated with a standard ordering of letters)
(this makes them useful for purposes of ‘collation’, specifically by allowing words to be sorted in ‘alphabetical order’)
(it also means that their letters can be used as an alternative method of “numbering” ordered items, in such contexts as ‘numbered lists’ and ‘number placements’)
(the word ‘alphabet’ refers to ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’)
(the first 2 letters of the ‘greek alphabet’)
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(‘basic latin alphabet’) –> “26 letters”
(usually grouped in rows of 7 / 7 / 7 / 5)
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