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  2. Orthography - Wikipedia

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    An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken ...

  3. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic prescription is a part of a language standardization process. [20] The chief aim of linguistic prescription is to specify socially preferred language forms (either generally, as in Standard English, or in style and register) in a way that is easily taught and learned. [21]

  4. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    English orthography does not always provide an underlying representation; sometimes it provides an intermediate representation between the underlying form and the surface pronunciation. This is the case with the spelling of the regular plural morpheme, which is written as either - s (as in tat, tats and hat, hats ) or - es (as in glass, glasses ).

  5. Codification (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Codifying a language can vary from case to case and depends on the stage of standardization that might have already occurred naturally. It typically means to develop a writing system, set up normative rules for grammar, orthography, pronunciation, and usage of vocabulary as well as publish grammar books, dictionaries and similar guidelines. In ...

  6. Spelling - Wikipedia

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    Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. [1] Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and highly standardized spelling is a prescriptive element.

  7. Hittite cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    A code made as a Hittite Cuneiform writing program (Phyton) - Doğancan Özgökçeler (Replit) The Hittite Grammar Homepage Includes a Hittite grammar, Hittite texts with their transcriptions and translations, a Hittite lexicon, and a summary table of the Hittite paradigms in a single page; Omniglot, Hittite Includes correct Hittite syllabary

  8. Comparison between Interlingue and Interlingua - Wikipedia

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    Flow chart on how nouns are derived from verbs in Occidental-Interlingue using De Wahl's Rule. Both Occidental-Interlingue and Interlingua are naturalistic constructed languages based on common Western European vocabulary, and share approximately 90% the same vocabulary when orthographic differences and final vowels (filisofie vs. philosophia for example) are not taken into account. [9]

  9. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    Compare PG *miz > OS mi, OE me vs. OHG mir. The OE nominative plural -as (ME -s ), OS nominative plural -ōs may be from original accusative plural * -ans , due to the Ingvaeonic Nasal-Spirant law, rather than original nominative plural * -ōz , which would be expected to become * -a (OHG -a , compare ON -ar ).