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The vast majority of abugidas are found from India to Southeast Asia and belong historically to the Brāhmī family, however the term is derived from the first characters of the abugida in Ge'ez: አ (A) ቡ (bu) ጊ (gi) ዳ (da) — (compare with alphabet). Unlike abjads, the diacritical marks and systemic modifications of the consonants are ...
Single Proto-Norse words are found on the Øvre Stabu spearhead (second half of the 2nd century) and the Vimose Comb (c. 160). 292: Mayan: Stela 29 from Tikal [78] A brief undeciphered inscription at San Bartolo is dated to the 3rd century BC. [79] 312–313: Sogdian: Ancient Letters, found near Dunhuang [80] 328: Arabic: Namara inscription: c ...
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.
Middle English † – Englisch, English, Inglis Formerly spoken in: the British Isles; Middle French † – françois, franceis Formerly spoken in: France; Middle High German † – diutsch, tiutsch Formerly spoken in: Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland; Middle Irish † – Gaoidhealg Formerly spoken in: Ireland, Scotland and the ...
Many pure alphabets were derived from abjads through the addition of dedicated vowel letters, as with the derivation of the Greek alphabet from the Phoenician alphabet c. 800 BC. Abjad is the word for "alphabet" in Arabic: the term derives from the traditional order of letters in the Arabic alphabet ('alif, bā', jīm, dāl). [46]
The Akkadians found a practical solution in writing their language phonetically, using the corresponding Sumerian phonetic signs. [56] Still, many of the Sumerian characters were retained for their logographic value as well: for example the character for "sheep" was retained, but was now pronounced immerum , rather than the Sumerian udu . [ 56 ]
[5] [6] The Semitic alphabet became the ancestor of multiple writing systems across the Middle East, Europe, northern Africa, and South Asia, mainly through Phoenician and the closely related Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, and later Aramaic (derived from the Phoenician alphabet) and the Nabatean—derived from the Aramaic alphabet and developed into ...
Additionally Akkadian is the only Semitic language to use the prepositions ina and ana (locative case, English in/on/with, and dative-locative case, for/to, respectively). Other Semitic languages like Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic have the prepositions bi/bə and li/lə (locative and dative, respectively). The origin of the Akkadian spatial ...