Advanced Vocabulary - Specific Writing Systems

Specific Writing Systems

Arabic noun

the system of writing that is used for the Arabic language.

braille noun

a reading system for blind people that uses small raised marks that they feel with their fingers.

cuneiform adjective

linguistics relating to a writing system used in ancient times in the Middle East. The letters are long and thin and wide at one end and narrow at the other..

cuneiform noun

linguistics cuneiform writing.

Cyrillic adjective

the Cyrillic alphabet is used to write Russian and some Central European languages.

Devanagari noun

the alphabet used for writing some Indian languages such as Hindi and Sanskrit.

gamma noun

the third letter of the Greek alphabet.

hieroglyphics noun

writing that uses pictures and symbols to represent sounds and words, especially Ancient Egyptian writing.

IPA noun

linguistics International Phonetic Alphabet: a system of symbols used for representing speech sounds.

kanji noun

a way of writing the Japanese language that uses ideograms signs that represent what words mean rather than how they sound.

katakana noun

a way of writing the Japanese language that uses signs to represent syllables units of words rather than single sounds . It is used mainly for writing foreign words. 

omega noun

the last letter of the Greek alphabet.

Pinyin noun

Chinese words written using the roman alphabet.

romaji noun

a system of writing the Japanese language using the roman alphabet.

the Roman alphabet noun

the alphabet developed by the ancient Romans that is used for writing English and many other European languages.

rune noun

a letter from an ancient northern European alphabet, cut in stone and thought to have magic powers.

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