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Green (unripe) plantains are peeled, sliced lengthwise, diagonally, or widthwise, and then fried twice. [3] The raw slices of plantains are fried for one to two minutes on each side until they are golden in color, and removed and patted to remove excess cooking oil.
The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, bangla bôrnômala) or Bengali script (Bengali: বাংলা লিপি, bangla lipi) is the writing system, originating in the Indian subcontinent, for the Bengali language and is the fifth most widely used writing system in the world.
A page from an 1856 book illustrating the letters of the alphabet for Gamilaraay at that time. Note the use of the letter eng (ŋ) and macrons (ˉ). Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Australian Aboriginal languages had been purely spoken languages, and had no writing system.
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...
A common alphabet is {0,1}, the binary alphabet, and a "00101111" is an example of a binary string. Infinite sequences of symbols may be considered as well (see Omega language). It is often necessary for practical purposes to restrict the symbols in an alphabet so that they are unambiguous when interpreted.
Ojibwe is an indigenous language of North America from the Algonquian language family. Ojibwe is one of the largest Native American languages north of Mexico in terms of number of speakers and is characterized by a series of dialects, some of which differ significantly.
Early history of the alphabet: an introduction to west Semitic epigraphy and palaeography (Reprint ed.). Jerusalem: Magnes. ISBN 978-965-223-436-0. Powell, Barry B. (1991). Homer and the origin of the Greek alphabet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37157-5. Ullman, B. L. (1927). "The Origin and Development of the Alphabet".
The spoken language included many homophones and near-homophones, and in the beginning, similar-sounding words such as "life" [til] and "arrow" [ti] were written with the same symbol (𒋾). As a result, many signs gradually changed from being logograms to also functioning as syllabograms , so that for example, the sign for the word "arrow ...