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What do you call a language that doesn't use the European alphabet?
What do you call the water that has been used to boil something?What do you call fireworks that bang?What do we call a baby's language?A person that you share the neighborhood withWhat do you call this kind of door lock?What do you call this place where various goods are sold?What do you call someone who fuses multiple objects together?What do you call the things inside a fruit?What do you call the air that rushes into your car in the highway?What do you call the soldiers who had the job to whip people's backs for their crimes in medieval times?
What do you call a language that doesn't use the European alphabet (abcd...), like Mandarin and Japanese?
Is there a word for it, or maybe an adjective that characterizes as being "non-alphabetic"?
I really can't think of a word.
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What do you call a language that doesn't use the European alphabet (abcd...), like Mandarin and Japanese?
Is there a word for it, or maybe an adjective that characterizes as being "non-alphabetic"?
I really can't think of a word.
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Did you only want to include languages in which characters represent ideas or words, or did you also want to include languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Russian or Arabic?
– Kevin
yesterday
There is no "European alphabet"; there are three common alphabet families in modern use for representing European languages, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, plus a host of runic and other systems which are no longer in use. Mind you, what a scholar defines as an alphabet also differs from what might be called an alphabet by the general public (e.g. written Chinese is not technically an alphabet) .
– choster
yesterday
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What do you call a language that doesn't use the European alphabet (abcd...), like Mandarin and Japanese?
Is there a word for it, or maybe an adjective that characterizes as being "non-alphabetic"?
I really can't think of a word.
word-request
asked yesterday
repomonsterrepomonster
1,146216
What do you call a language that doesn't use the European alphabet (abcd...), like Mandarin and Japanese?
Is there a word for it, or maybe an adjective that characterizes as being "non-alphabetic"?
I really can't think of a word.
word-request
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Did you only want to include languages in which characters represent ideas or words, or did you also want to include languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Russian or Arabic?
– Kevin
yesterday
There is no "European alphabet"; there are three common alphabet families in modern use for representing European languages, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, plus a host of runic and other systems which are no longer in use. Mind you, what a scholar defines as an alphabet also differs from what might be called an alphabet by the general public (e.g. written Chinese is not technically an alphabet) .
– choster
yesterday
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Did you only want to include languages in which characters represent ideas or words, or did you also want to include languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Russian or Arabic?
– Kevin
yesterday
There is no "European alphabet"; there are three common alphabet families in modern use for representing European languages, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, plus a host of runic and other systems which are no longer in use. Mind you, what a scholar defines as an alphabet also differs from what might be called an alphabet by the general public (e.g. written Chinese is not technically an alphabet) .
– choster
yesterday
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Did you only want to include languages in which characters represent ideas or words, or did you also want to include languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Russian or Arabic?
– Kevin
yesterday
Did you only want to include languages in which characters represent ideas or words, or did you also want to include languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Russian or Arabic?
– Kevin
yesterday
There is no "European alphabet"; there are three common alphabet families in modern use for representing European languages, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, plus a host of runic and other systems which are no longer in use. Mind you, what a scholar defines as an alphabet also differs from what might be called an alphabet by the general public (e.g. written Chinese is not technically an alphabet) .
– choster
yesterday
There is no "European alphabet"; there are three common alphabet families in modern use for representing European languages, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, plus a host of runic and other systems which are no longer in use. Mind you, what a scholar defines as an alphabet also differs from what might be called an alphabet by the general public (e.g. written Chinese is not technically an alphabet) .
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Chinese uses ideograms. It has an ideographic character set. Each character represents an idea.
Ancient Egyptian used hieroglyphs. It had a hieroglyphic character set. Each character was a more-or-less recognizable picture of something.
Most Slavic languages use Cyrillic alphabets. Their characters are letters. Saint Cyril developed the first such alphabet as part of his work converting the Moravians.
Arabic and Hebrew are written in scripts that are named for their languages. They have letters for their consonants. Since medieval times, Hebrew has had diacritic marks for its vowels. Some Arabic vowel sounds are represented by letters; others are optionally represented by diacritic marks.
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What about arabic and slavic languages?
– repomonster
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The Greek alphabet is not the Cyrillic alphabet, though the latter owes much to the former; the modern Greek alphabet is quite close to its ancient counterpart. By the by, the categorisation of different phonetic writing systems - abjads, alphabets, abugidas - is quite fascinating.
– SamBC
yesterday
@SamBC -- Thanks.
– Jasper
yesterday
You might find the creation of written Cherokee by Sequoyah, AKA George Gist, if interest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
– DrMoishe Pippik
yesterday
I think you have a typo in "heiroglyphs", but it's too small for me to edit
– Erik
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In technical writing, you should talk about "Logograms" (ie Chinese characters), in which each character represents a word or morpheme. Chinese is a logographic writing system. (The Hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt were partly logographic but mostly phonetic on the "rebus" principle.)
There are syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Japanese kana is an example, and written Japanese is a mixed system with both logograms and two syllabaries.
There are then abugida (such as Devanagari used in India), Abjad (such as Arabic, or Hebrew in which vowels are omitted), and Alphabets in which vowels and consonants are written with separate symbols
Examples of alphabets include the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic and Hangul (Korean) writing systems. Many languages can be written in several different scripts: Turkish, for example, can be written in Arabic or a version of the Latin script.
There's no short way to specify "Languages that don't use Latin script", just as there is no short phrase for "fruit that are not apples".
However, if you are writing about Chinese character systems used for Japanese or Manderine then "Logographic" is the correct word. Technically "Ideographic" refers to systems such as "road signs" in which a symbol represents an idea.
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Chinese uses ideograms. It has an ideographic character set. Each character represents an idea.
Ancient Egyptian used hieroglyphs. It had a hieroglyphic character set. Each character was a more-or-less recognizable picture of something.
Most Slavic languages use Cyrillic alphabets. Their characters are letters. Saint Cyril developed the first such alphabet as part of his work converting the Moravians.
Arabic and Hebrew are written in scripts that are named for their languages. They have letters for their consonants. Since medieval times, Hebrew has had diacritic marks for its vowels. Some Arabic vowel sounds are represented by letters; others are optionally represented by diacritic marks.
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What about arabic and slavic languages?
– repomonster
yesterday
The Greek alphabet is not the Cyrillic alphabet, though the latter owes much to the former; the modern Greek alphabet is quite close to its ancient counterpart. By the by, the categorisation of different phonetic writing systems - abjads, alphabets, abugidas - is quite fascinating.
– SamBC
yesterday
@SamBC -- Thanks.
– Jasper
yesterday
You might find the creation of written Cherokee by Sequoyah, AKA George Gist, if interest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
– DrMoishe Pippik
yesterday
I think you have a typo in "heiroglyphs", but it's too small for me to edit
– Erik
yesterday
|
show 1 more comment
Chinese uses ideograms. It has an ideographic character set. Each character represents an idea.
Ancient Egyptian used hieroglyphs. It had a hieroglyphic character set. Each character was a more-or-less recognizable picture of something.
Most Slavic languages use Cyrillic alphabets. Their characters are letters. Saint Cyril developed the first such alphabet as part of his work converting the Moravians.
Arabic and Hebrew are written in scripts that are named for their languages. They have letters for their consonants. Since medieval times, Hebrew has had diacritic marks for its vowels. Some Arabic vowel sounds are represented by letters; others are optionally represented by diacritic marks.
answered yesterday
JasperJasper
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What about arabic and slavic languages?
– repomonster
yesterday
The Greek alphabet is not the Cyrillic alphabet, though the latter owes much to the former; the modern Greek alphabet is quite close to its ancient counterpart. By the by, the categorisation of different phonetic writing systems - abjads, alphabets, abugidas - is quite fascinating.
– SamBC
yesterday
@SamBC -- Thanks.
– Jasper
yesterday
You might find the creation of written Cherokee by Sequoyah, AKA George Gist, if interest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
– DrMoishe Pippik
yesterday
I think you have a typo in "heiroglyphs", but it's too small for me to edit
– Erik
yesterday
|
show 1 more comment
Chinese uses ideograms. It has an ideographic character set. Each character represents an idea.
Ancient Egyptian used hieroglyphs. It had a hieroglyphic character set. Each character was a more-or-less recognizable picture of something.
Most Slavic languages use Cyrillic alphabets. Their characters are letters. Saint Cyril developed the first such alphabet as part of his work converting the Moravians.
Arabic and Hebrew are written in scripts that are named for their languages. They have letters for their consonants. Since medieval times, Hebrew has had diacritic marks for its vowels. Some Arabic vowel sounds are represented by letters; others are optionally represented by diacritic marks.
answered yesterday
JasperJasper
18.7k43771
Chinese uses ideograms. It has an ideographic character set. Each character represents an idea.
Ancient Egyptian used hieroglyphs. It had a hieroglyphic character set. Each character was a more-or-less recognizable picture of something.
Most Slavic languages use Cyrillic alphabets. Their characters are letters. Saint Cyril developed the first such alphabet as part of his work converting the Moravians.
Arabic and Hebrew are written in scripts that are named for their languages. They have letters for their consonants. Since medieval times, Hebrew has had diacritic marks for its vowels. Some Arabic vowel sounds are represented by letters; others are optionally represented by diacritic marks.
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What about arabic and slavic languages?
– repomonster
yesterday
The Greek alphabet is not the Cyrillic alphabet, though the latter owes much to the former; the modern Greek alphabet is quite close to its ancient counterpart. By the by, the categorisation of different phonetic writing systems - abjads, alphabets, abugidas - is quite fascinating.
– SamBC
yesterday
@SamBC -- Thanks.
– Jasper
yesterday
You might find the creation of written Cherokee by Sequoyah, AKA George Gist, if interest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
– DrMoishe Pippik
yesterday
I think you have a typo in "heiroglyphs", but it's too small for me to edit
– Erik
yesterday
|
show 1 more comment
What about arabic and slavic languages?
– repomonster
yesterday
The Greek alphabet is not the Cyrillic alphabet, though the latter owes much to the former; the modern Greek alphabet is quite close to its ancient counterpart. By the by, the categorisation of different phonetic writing systems - abjads, alphabets, abugidas - is quite fascinating.
– SamBC
yesterday
@SamBC -- Thanks.
– Jasper
yesterday
You might find the creation of written Cherokee by Sequoyah, AKA George Gist, if interest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
– DrMoishe Pippik
yesterday
I think you have a typo in "heiroglyphs", but it's too small for me to edit
– Erik
yesterday
What about arabic and slavic languages?
– repomonster
yesterday
What about arabic and slavic languages?
– repomonster
yesterday
The Greek alphabet is not the Cyrillic alphabet, though the latter owes much to the former; the modern Greek alphabet is quite close to its ancient counterpart. By the by, the categorisation of different phonetic writing systems - abjads, alphabets, abugidas - is quite fascinating.
– SamBC
yesterday
The Greek alphabet is not the Cyrillic alphabet, though the latter owes much to the former; the modern Greek alphabet is quite close to its ancient counterpart. By the by, the categorisation of different phonetic writing systems - abjads, alphabets, abugidas - is quite fascinating.
– SamBC
yesterday
@SamBC -- Thanks.
– Jasper
yesterday
@SamBC -- Thanks.
– Jasper
yesterday
You might find the creation of written Cherokee by Sequoyah, AKA George Gist, if interest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
– DrMoishe Pippik
yesterday
You might find the creation of written Cherokee by Sequoyah, AKA George Gist, if interest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
– DrMoishe Pippik
yesterday
I think you have a typo in "heiroglyphs", but it's too small for me to edit
– Erik
yesterday
I think you have a typo in "heiroglyphs", but it's too small for me to edit
– Erik
yesterday
|
show 1 more comment
In technical writing, you should talk about "Logograms" (ie Chinese characters), in which each character represents a word or morpheme. Chinese is a logographic writing system. (The Hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt were partly logographic but mostly phonetic on the "rebus" principle.)
There are syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Japanese kana is an example, and written Japanese is a mixed system with both logograms and two syllabaries.
There are then abugida (such as Devanagari used in India), Abjad (such as Arabic, or Hebrew in which vowels are omitted), and Alphabets in which vowels and consonants are written with separate symbols
Examples of alphabets include the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic and Hangul (Korean) writing systems. Many languages can be written in several different scripts: Turkish, for example, can be written in Arabic or a version of the Latin script.
There's no short way to specify "Languages that don't use Latin script", just as there is no short phrase for "fruit that are not apples".
However, if you are writing about Chinese character systems used for Japanese or Manderine then "Logographic" is the correct word. Technically "Ideographic" refers to systems such as "road signs" in which a symbol represents an idea.
answered yesterday
James KJames K
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In technical writing, you should talk about "Logograms" (ie Chinese characters), in which each character represents a word or morpheme. Chinese is a logographic writing system. (The Hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt were partly logographic but mostly phonetic on the "rebus" principle.)
There are syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Japanese kana is an example, and written Japanese is a mixed system with both logograms and two syllabaries.
There are then abugida (such as Devanagari used in India), Abjad (such as Arabic, or Hebrew in which vowels are omitted), and Alphabets in which vowels and consonants are written with separate symbols
Examples of alphabets include the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic and Hangul (Korean) writing systems. Many languages can be written in several different scripts: Turkish, for example, can be written in Arabic or a version of the Latin script.
There's no short way to specify "Languages that don't use Latin script", just as there is no short phrase for "fruit that are not apples".
However, if you are writing about Chinese character systems used for Japanese or Manderine then "Logographic" is the correct word. Technically "Ideographic" refers to systems such as "road signs" in which a symbol represents an idea.
answered yesterday
James KJames K
38.2k13997
add a comment |
In technical writing, you should talk about "Logograms" (ie Chinese characters), in which each character represents a word or morpheme. Chinese is a logographic writing system. (The Hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt were partly logographic but mostly phonetic on the "rebus" principle.)
There are syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Japanese kana is an example, and written Japanese is a mixed system with both logograms and two syllabaries.
There are then abugida (such as Devanagari used in India), Abjad (such as Arabic, or Hebrew in which vowels are omitted), and Alphabets in which vowels and consonants are written with separate symbols
Examples of alphabets include the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic and Hangul (Korean) writing systems. Many languages can be written in several different scripts: Turkish, for example, can be written in Arabic or a version of the Latin script.
There's no short way to specify "Languages that don't use Latin script", just as there is no short phrase for "fruit that are not apples".
However, if you are writing about Chinese character systems used for Japanese or Manderine then "Logographic" is the correct word. Technically "Ideographic" refers to systems such as "road signs" in which a symbol represents an idea.
answered yesterday
James KJames K
38.2k13997
In technical writing, you should talk about "Logograms" (ie Chinese characters), in which each character represents a word or morpheme. Chinese is a logographic writing system. (The Hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt were partly logographic but mostly phonetic on the "rebus" principle.)
There are syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Japanese kana is an example, and written Japanese is a mixed system with both logograms and two syllabaries.
There are then abugida (such as Devanagari used in India), Abjad (such as Arabic, or Hebrew in which vowels are omitted), and Alphabets in which vowels and consonants are written with separate symbols
Examples of alphabets include the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic and Hangul (Korean) writing systems. Many languages can be written in several different scripts: Turkish, for example, can be written in Arabic or a version of the Latin script.
There's no short way to specify "Languages that don't use Latin script", just as there is no short phrase for "fruit that are not apples".
However, if you are writing about Chinese character systems used for Japanese or Manderine then "Logographic" is the correct word. Technically "Ideographic" refers to systems such as "road signs" in which a symbol represents an idea.
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Did you only want to include languages in which characters represent ideas or words, or did you also want to include languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Russian or Arabic?
– Kevin
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There is no "European alphabet"; there are three common alphabet families in modern use for representing European languages, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, plus a host of runic and other systems which are no longer in use. Mind you, what a scholar defines as an alphabet also differs from what might be called an alphabet by the general public (e.g. written Chinese is not technically an alphabet) .
– choster
yesterday