no footnotes date August 2011 IPA notice The Czechalphabet is a version of the Latin script , used when writing Czech language Czech . Its basic principles are one sound, one letter and the addition of diacritical ... language Estonian are based on the Czechalphabet, omitting or adding characters according to their needs. The most notable exception is Polish language Polish , which developed Polish alphabet its own Roman script independently . The Czechalphabet is also the standard script of Akademija ... Bulgarian , Macedonian language Macedonian and others . The alphabet consists of 42 graphemes ... words and do not have a separate place in the alphabet. History Most of the diacritic letters were added to the alphabet through reforms brought about by Jan Hus at the beginning of the 15th century to replace the digraph orthography digraphs and trigraph orthography trigraphs used to write Czech sounds that had no equivalent in the Latin alphabet the Polish language still uses this previous orthography ... as was added to the list. The only digraph left in the alphabet is Ch digraph Ch , being ordered ... of single square ch in crosswords declined somewhat with the widespread use of computers in the Czech ... exclusively in words and names of foreign origin. They are now common enough in the Czech language ... , several different coding standards have existed for this alphabet, among them ISO 8859 2 Windows ... brothers or KEYBCS2 on early DOS PCs and on Fidonet . ref Details in Czech at http www.cestina.cz ... Czech language Czech phonology Czech orthography Non English usage of quotation marks External links http www.czech language.cz Czech Language http www kiv.zcu.cz luki cs cs encodings faq.html Czech Encodings FAQ and http www.cestina.cz kodovani list of known encodings in Czech http euro.typo.cz Typo.cz Information on Central European typography and typesetting DEFAULTSORT CzechAlphabet Category Latin alphabets Category Czech language cs esk abeceda es Alfabeto checo it Alfabeto ceco hu Cseh ... more details
Other uses Refimprove date October 2007 pp move indef Writing systems sidebar An alphabet is a standard set of letter alphabet letters basic written symbols or graphemes each of which represents a phoneme ... according to how they indicate vowels the same way as consonants, as in Greek alphabet Greek true alphabet diacritic s or modification of consonants, as in Devanagari Hindi Devan gar abugida not at all, as in Phoenician alphabet Phoenician abjad The word alphabet came into Middle ... alphab tos , from alpha letter alpha and beta letter beta , the first two letters of the Greek alphabet . ref http www.britannica.com dictionary?book Dictionary&va alphabet&query alphabet Encyclop dia ... the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet , and meant ox and house respectively. There are dozens ... p 96 ref deriving from the first true alphabet, Greek. ref name Blackwell cite book last Coulmas first ... code . History Main History of the alphabet File Caslon schriftmusterblatt.jpeg thumb 300px A Specimen ... of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt . By the 27th century BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some ... dna h2g2 A2451890 title The Development of the Western Alphabet accessdate 2008 08 04 first ...&Page 0&UserID 0& title How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs author Goldwasser, O. journal Biblical Archaeology Review volume 36 number 2 date March April 2010 pages 40 53 ref Others suggest the alphabet ... online ref The Proto Sinaitic script eventually developed into the Phoenician alphabet , which ... language Canaanite and Aramaic . The Aramaic gave rise to Hebrew alphabet Hebrew . ref Coulmas 1989 ,p.142 ref The South Arabian alphabet , a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge ez alphabet an abugida is descended. Note that the scripts mentioned above ... alphabets are called abjad s, currently exemplified in scripts including Arabic alphabet Arabic , Hebrew alphabet Hebrew , and Syriac alphabet Syriac . The omission of vowels was not a satisfactory ... more details
Wiktionary Czech may refer to Czech cuisine Anything from or related to the Czech Republic , a country in Europe Czech language Czechs , the people of the area One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech and Rus The word is also contained in the names of some places Czech, d Voivodeship Poland Czechville, Wisconsin USA See also Czech surname Czech lands Czechoslovakia List of Czechs Lookfrom Intitle Category Slavic loanwords Category Czech loanwords Category Surnames of Czech origin disambig surname de Tschechisch es Checo id Ceko ms Czech pt Checo sq ek sk esk ... more details
Slavic alphabet can refer to Glagolitic alphabet Early Cyrillic alphabet Cyrillic script Russian alphabet Bulgarian alphabet Macedonian alphabet Serbian alphabet Ukrainian alphabet disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
Bulgar alphabet may refer to Kuban alphabet , an alphabet in use in Old Great Bulgaria during the 8th to 13th centuries Bulgarian alphabet , an alphabet introduced in 1870 by Marin Drinov and reformed in 1945 disambig ... more details
by France Pre eren , first version in the Bohori alphabet The Bohori alphabet lang sl bohori ica ... is derived from Adam Bohori , who codified the alphabet in his book Articae Horulae Succisivae , published in 1584. The Bohori alphabet was first used by the Lutheran preacher Primo Trubar , the author ... and often used alternate spellings for the same word. The alphabet consists of 25 letters including ... m n o p r h s sh t u v z zh span The Bohori alphabet differs from the modern Slovene alphabet in the following letters class wikitable width 300 Bohori alphabet align center majuscule minuscule ... language German . In the early Bohori alphabet, some letters shared majuscule forms I was the majuscule ... , etc. Historical development Bohori s alphabet was first codified in 1584 by the Protestant author ... completely the Protestant religious community in the Slovene Lands , the alphabet was taken over by Catholic ... s alphabet remained in use throughout this period. Slovene names in Valvasor s German written book ... them with phonetic alphabets. The two most famous attempts were made by Peter Dajnko Dajnko alphabet in 1824 and Fran Metelko Metelko alphabet in 1825. These attempts, sponsored by the philologist Jernej ... Pre eren , resulting in the so called Slovene alphabet war lang sl slovenska abecedna vojna or rkarska ... gained their battle against the innovators, also with the support of the Czech people Czech linguist ... of the Croatian Gaj s Latin alphabet for his journal Kmetijske in rokodelske novice . Very quickly, this solution was accepted by all sides, and by 1848, Gaj s reformed alphabet completely replaced Bohori s script. Problems The Bohori alphabet was quite successful, but it suffered from a number of flaws Slovenian has eight vowels, but the Bohori alphabet only has five vowel characters this flaw ... known in Slovene as the abecedna vojna or the alphabet war took place in the 1830s. After experiments with the Metelko alphabet Metelko and Dajnko alphabet Dajnko alphabets, around 1850 Slovenians ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2009 The Sorbian alphabet is based on the basic Latin alphabet but uses diacritic s such as the acute accent and the caron , making it similar to the CzechalphabetCzech and Polish alphabet Polish alphabets. The standard character encoding for the Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859 2 Latin 2 . The alphabet is used for the Sorbian languages , although some letters are used in only one of the two languages Upper Sorbian language Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian language Lower Sorbian . class wikitable Upper br case HTML br code Lower br case HTML br code Name Usual br phonetic value Other br phonetic values Comments A a a IPA a B b bej IPA b IPA p C c cej IPA ts & 268 & 269 ej IPA t & 262 & 263 et IPA t D d dej IPA d IPA t E e ej IPA & 282 & 283 j t t Upper , t Lower IPA i F f ef IPA f G g gej IPA H h ha Upper IPA h br Lower IPA h or silent I i i IPA i J j jot j t Upper , jot Lower IPA j K k ka IPA k & 321 & 322 e IPA w L l el IPA l M m em IPA m N n en IPA n & 323 & 324 e Upper , ejn Lower IPA O o o IPA & 211 & 243 t Upper IPA u br Lower IPA or IPA P p pej IPA p R r er IPA r & 344 & 345 e IPA Upper ... version of the Lower Sorbian alphabet included the use of the letters Unicode b , , , and to indicate ... in alphabetical order. DEFAULTSORT Sorbian Alphabet Category Sorbian languages Alphabet Category Latin alphabets Category West Slavic languages Category Sorbian people de Sorbisches Alphabet eo Soraba ... more details
that would become the Croatian alphabet , and was in turn patterned on the Czechalphabet . Before ...The Slovene alphabet is an extension of the Latin script and is used in the Slovene language Slovene . The standard language uses a Latin alphabets Latin alphabet which is a slight modification of Gaj s Latin alphabet , consisting of 25 lower and upper case letters class wikitable Letter Name International Phonetic Alphabet IPA Letter Name International Phonetic Alphabet IPA A , a a IPA a M , m em IPA m B , b be IPA b N , n en IPA n C , c ce IPA ts O , o o IPA , o , e IPA t P , p pe IPA p D , d de IPA d R , r er IPA r E , e e IPA , e , S , s es IPA s F , f ef IPA f , e IPA G , g ge IPA T , t te IPA t H , h ha IPA x U , u u IPA u I , i i IPA i V , v, ve IPA v , w J , j je IPA j Z , z ze IPA z K , k ka IPA k , e IPA L , l el IPA l , w http www.omniglot.com writing ... . Diacritics Image Slovenska abeceda.png right thumb 400px The Slovene alphabet in various fonts Times ... Slovenski pravopis and the 2006 Leksikon SOVA make use of this alphabet a , b , c , , ... are not used as independent letters. History This modern alphabet abeceda was standardised in mid ... . In the old alphabet used by most distinguished writers, bohori ica , developed by Adam Bohoric ... his version of the alphabet called metel ica . However, it was banned in 1833 in favour of the bohori ica ... by France Preseren France Pre eren and Matija Cop Matija op . Another alphabet, dajn ica , was developed ... as a bad way to handle missing characters. The gajica see Gaj s Latin alphabet was adopted afterwards .... See also Gaj s Latin alphabet References unreferenced date January 2008 External links http www.ijs.si slo chset.html l2 Slovene alphabet http euro.typo.cz Typo.cz Information on Central European typography and typesetting DEFAULTSORT Slovene Alphabet Category Slovene alphabet Category Latin alphabets de Slowenisches Alphabet it Alfabeto sloveno hu Szlov n b c mk pl Alfabet ... more details
wiktionarypar alphabet An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters basic written symbols 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. Alphabets Latin alphabet English alphabet Greek alphabet Russian alphabet Chinese alphabet Arabic alphabet Ukrainian alphabet Manual alphabet, or fingerspelling , a way of representing letters with hand positions International Phonetic Alphabet IPA , a system of phonetic notation used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent the sounds used in spoken human language. ICAO spelling alphabet also called NATO phonetic alphabet or international radiotelephony spelling alphabet , where letters are assigned names to make them readily understood by voice communication Other Alphabet song , a mnemonic used for learning the Latin alphabet The Alphabet song , one of the Nonsense Madrigals of Gy rgy Ligeti The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering , the book written by Frederic W. Goudy . The Short Films of David Lynch The Alphabet The Alphabet , a 1968 short film by David Lynch The Alphabet , a poem by Ron Silliman , composed between 1979 and 2004 Alphabet computer science , a finite set of characters or digits. See also Alphabeta disambiguation Alpha Bits , a breakfast cereal Disambig de Alphabet Begriffskl rung nl Alfabet doorverwijspagina ja Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz pt Alfabeto desambigua o ru tr Alfabe anlam ayr m uk ... more details
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The Latvian language Latvian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet and consists of 33 letters. 22 of them are from the Latin alphabet the remaining 11 are obtained from Latin letters by using diacritic marks. The letters are a, , b, c, , d, e, , f, g, , h, i, , j, k, , l, , m, n, , o, p, r, s, , t, u, , v, z, A, , B, C, , D, E, , F, G, , H, I, , J, K, , L, , M, N, , O, P, R, S, , T, U, , V, Z, Historical letters Historically the letters CH, and were also used in the Latvian alphabet. On 5 June 1946, the Latvian SSR legislature passed a regulation on language reform that officially replaced the letter with R in print. ref LPSR AP Prezidija Zi ot js , no. 132 1946 , p. 132. ref Similar reforms replacing CH with H, and with O were enacted over the next few years. The letters CH, and continue to be used in print throughout most of the Latvian diaspora communities, whose founding members left their homeland before the post World War II Soviet era language reforms. An example of a publication in Latvia today, albeit one aimed at the Latvian diaspora, that uses the older Latvian orthography orthography and hence, also the letters CH, and is the weekly newspaper Br v Latvija . The letter O In present day Latvian, the letter O is used for three vowel sounds the diphthong uo , and a simple o both long and short , particularly in loan words e.g. telefons . Letter names and pronunciation class wikitable Letter Name help IPA IPA English approximation Letter Name help IPA IPA English approximation A , a a IPA U p , IPA c Not used in English, corresponds to Hungarian language Hungarian Ty , garais IPA C a r L , l el IPA l L amp ... in English, corresponds to the Slovak language Slovak Czech language Czech , but somewhat similar ... references See also Latvian orthography Use dmy dates date September 2010 DEFAULTSORT Latvian Alphabet ... de Lettisches Alphabet ko it Alfabeto lettone lv Latvie u alfab ts mk ... more details
The Alphabet Show was a late 1990s television show broadcast on UK Play . It was presented by Lauren Laverne and Chris Addison . Each episode focused on a different letter alphabet letter of the alphabet , it featured music videos and discussion which was loosely related to the chosen letter. DEFAULTSORT Alphabet Show, The Category Play UK television programmes UK tv stub ... more details
Wiktionarypar phonetic alphabet Phonetic alphabet can mean phonetic transcription system a system for transcribing the precise sounds of human speech into writing. International Phonetic Alphabet IPA the most widespread such system Category Phonetic alphabets lists other phonetic transcription systems phonemic orthography for representing the sounds of a particular language with a one symbol per sound correspondence spelling alphabet a set of words used instead of alphabetic letters in radio communication each word stands for its initial letter ICAO spelling alphabet the most widespread such set Alfa, Bravo, Charlie,... Category Spelling alphabets lists other spelling alphabets Disambig da Fonetisk alfabet flertydig de Phonetisches Alphabet es Alfabeto fon tico fr Alphabet phon tique it Alfabeto fonetico he pl Alfabet fonetyczny pt Alfabeto fon tico sq Alfabeti fonetik ... more details
The Fayum alphabet is a Greeks Greco Phoenicians Phoenician abecedary shown on four copper tablets discovered in Fayum , Egypt . The tablets are dated to around 800 BC and represent the earliest known link between Greek letter forms and their Phoenician or Semitic North Semitic parent forms. Since the tablets predate the Dipylon inscription , the Fayum alphabet currently depicts the earliest manifestation of the Greek alphabet . ref Cite book last Woodard first Roger D. title The Ancient Languages of Europe location Cambridge publisher Cambridge University Press year 2008 isbn 9780521684958 pages 56 57 ref ref http www.schoyencollection.com firstalpha.htm 108 The Schoyen Collection Checklist of Manuscripts MS 108 The Earliest Greek Alphabet ref See also History of the Greek alphabet References reflist Category Greek alphabet Category Hellenic scripts Category Ancient Greeks in Egypt Category Iron Age Greece ... more details
Image Polish alphabet.png thumb The Polish alphabet. Grey indicates letters not used in native words. Polish language The Polish alphabet is the writing system script of the Polish language , the basis for the Polish orthography Polish system of orthography . It is based on the Latin alphabet , but includes certain letters with diacritic s the line or kreska , which is graphically similar to an acute accent , , , , the dot diacritic overdot or kropka the tail or ogonek , and the bar diacritic stroke . The letters q , v and x , which are used only in foreign words, are frequently not considered part of the Polish alphabet, The Polish alphabet, or variations of it, is also used for writing Kashubian language Kashubian , Silesian language Silesian , and to a certain extent for the Sorbian languages . Letters When Q, V and X are excluded, there are 32 letters in the Polish alphabet 9 vowel s and 23 consonant s. The following table lists the letters of the alphabet, their Polish names see also Names of letters Names of letters below , the Polish phonology Polish phonemes ... q , v , and x do not belong to the Polish alphabet, but are used in some foreign words and commercial ... alphabet after P, U and W respectively . Note that unlike in languages such as French language French ... letter as in Czech language Czech . Computer encoding There are several different systems for Character encoding encoding the Polish alphabet for computers. The standard 8 bit character encoding for the Polish alphabet is ISO IEC 8859 2 ISO 8859 2 Latin 2 , although both ISO IEC 8859 13 ISO 8859 13 Latin 7 and ISO IEC 8859 16 ISO 8859 16 Latin 10 encodings include glyphs of the Polish alphabet. Microsoft s format for encoding the Polish alphabet is Windows 1250 . The Polish letters which are not present in the English alphabet have the following HTML codes and Unicode codepoints class wikitable ... Online editor for typing Polish characters Category Polish language Alphabet Category ... more details
Infobox Writing system type Alphabet name Glagolitic time 862 863 to the Middle Ages languages Old Church ... U 2C00&ndash U 2C5F iso15924 Glag Contains Glagolitic text The Glagolitic alphabet IPAc en icon l l t k , also known as Glagolitsa, is the oldest known Slavic peoples Slavic alphabet . The name ... Croatian and Serbian language Serbian glagoljica , Czech language Czech hlaholice, Polish ... to write in Slavic they devised a new alphabet which is now called Glagolitic. ref ref Florin Curta ... used in the hinterland of their home town, Thessalonica. Constantine devised a new alphabet, later ... a Slavic alphabet and undertake translations into Slavic on a major scale. ref the origin of the Glagolitic alphabet is obscure. The medieval text Pannonian Life of Constantine records that the Slavs ... was familiar with Biblical scripts such as Greek, Hebrew alphabet Hebrew , Armenian alphabet Armenian , and Syriac alphabet Syriac , so the Gosplel and Psalter he was shown were presumably not written ... from cursive Greek alphabet Greek in the Balkan region of Macedonia region Macedonia centuries ..., Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p 15 ref The number of letters in the original Glagolitic alphabet is not known ... centuries the number of letters drops dramatically, to less than 30 in modern Croatian and Czech ... table below probably derive from graphemes of the medieval cursive Greek alphabet Greek small alphabet .... If they were added by Cyril, it is likely that they were taken from an alphabet used for Christian ... were taken from the letters Shin letter shin and tsadi of the Hebrew alphabet , and that zhivete derives from Coptic alphabet Coptic janja . However, Cubberley 1996 suggests that if a single prototype were presumed, that the most likely source would be Armenian alphabet Armenian . Other proposals include the Samaritan alphabet , which Cyril learned during his journey to the Khazars in Cherson ... alphabetic order. History File Bascanska ploca.jpg left thumb The Ba ka tablet . alphabet The two monks ... more details
The Butterfly Alphabet is a photographic work done by the Norwegian born photographer Kjell B. Sandved . Sandved worked at National Museum of Natural History , Smithsonian Institution , Washington D.C. and by chance he came up with the idea, finding all the letters of the Latin alphabet and the Arabic numerals 0 to 9 in the patterns on the wings of butterflies . His photographic excursions led him to Brazil , Republic of the Congo Congo , Papua New Guinea and Philippines . In 1975, he finished his alphabet, and published it in the Smithsonian Magazine . External links http www.butterflyalphabet.com Butterfly Alphabet Category Photographic collections and books ... more details
The Celestial alphabet was written about by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th Century. Other alphabets with a similar origin are Transitus Fluvii and Malachim . File Three Books of Occult Philosophy Book III Page 439.jpg thumb right The Celestial Alphabet described in Agrippa s Of Occult Philosophy External links http www.steliart.com angelology celestial alphabet.html Description of the Celestial Alphabet Category Artificial scripts used in mysticism writingsystem stub ... more details
The Alphabet of the Magi was an alphabet invented by Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim known as Paracelsus for the use of engraving angelic names upon Amulet talismans . It was likely influenced by the various undefined alphabets from older Grimoires of the time. External links http www.omniglot.com writing magi.htm Omniglot Page Detailing this Alphabet Category Alphabetic writing systems Category Magic paranormal writingsystem stub ... more details
Dablink Alphabet soup redirects here. For other uses, see Alphabet soup disambiguation . refimprove date June 2008 Image Alphabet soup.jpg thumb A bowl of alphabet soup Image Buchstabensuppe.jpg thumb right Alphabet pasta in soup Alphabet pasta , also referred to as Alfabeto or Alphabetti Spaghetti , is pasta that has been mechanically cut or pressed into the letters of an alphabet . It is often served in an alphabet soup, sold in a canned, condensed broth. Another variation, Alphaghetti, consists of letter shaped pasta in a marinara or spaghetti sauce. One common American brand of condensed style alphabet soup is Campbell Soup Company Campbell s . This soup, like its competitors , is marketed towards parents for its educational value. A similar product, Alphabetti Spaghetti, was sold by the H. J. Heinz Company for 60 years before being discontinued in 1990. Like Campbell s alphabet soup, it contains alphabet pasta canned in tomato sauce , but no cheese. It was later reintroduced by Heinz in 2005. ref cite title Alphabet spaghetti back for a spell date 7 April 2005 newspaper Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers url http www.dailymail.co.uk. health article 344045 Alphabet spaghetti spell.html accessdate 2009 04 26 ref ref cite title Dish that s write on newspaper Daily Record Scotland Daily Record date 7 April 2005 ref See also List of pasta SpaghettiOs Alpha Bits References reflist Cookbook Pasta Recipes External links http www.food info.net uk products pasta shapes.htm Pasta shapes An illustrated guide at Food Info.net Pasta Category Pasta ingredient stub de Buchstabensuppe es Sopa de letras alimento ... more details
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