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What is the difference between abjad and alphabet?

abjad | alphabet |

As nouns the difference between abjad and alphabet

is that abjad is a writing system, similar to a syllabary, in which there is one glyph (that is a symbol or letter) for each consonant or consonantal phoneme. Some languages that use abjads are Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Abjads differ from syllabaries (such as the Japanese hiragana) in that the vowel quality of each letter is left unspecified, and must be inferred from context and grammar while alphabet is the set of letters used when writing in a language.

As a verb alphabet is

to designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

abjad

English

(wikipedia abjad)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A writing system, similar to a syllabary, in which there is one glyph (that is a symbol or letter) for each consonant or consonantal phoneme. Some languages that use abjads are Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Abjads differ from syllabaries (such as the Japanese hiragana) in that the vowel quality of each letter is left unspecified, and must be inferred from context and grammar.

    • See also

    * abugida * ----

    alphabet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The set of letters used when writing in a language.
    • The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
    In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet .
  • A writing system in which letters represent phonemes.
  • # A true alphabet, a writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and'' vowel phonemes.
  • (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
    • Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma .
  • (India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
  • * 2002 , Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing , Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
    • We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
  • * 2005 , Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures , Laxmi Publications, page 237:
    • There are 26 alphabets in English.
  • The simplest rudiments; elements.
  • * Macaulay
    • The very alphabet of our law.

    Derived terms

    () * alphabetic, alphabetical * alphabetize * alphabet soup * alphanumeric, alphanumerical * Cyrillic alphabet * Greek alphabet * Latin alphabet * Phoenician alphabet * phonetic alphabet * Roman alphabet * Russian alphabet * Ukrainian alphabet

    Synonyms

    * , absey

    See also

    * abjad * abugida * script * syllabary * writing system *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia) ----