As human societies emerged, the develop of writing was driven by pragmatic exigencies such as exchanging information, maintain codifying laws and record history.
In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. Writing is not a language but a form of technology.Within a language system, writing
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It also means that their letters can be used as an alternative method of “numbering” ordered items, in such contexts as numbered lists. The English word
alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word
alphabetum.
The term “alphabet” is used by linguists and paleographers in both a wide and a narrow sense.
Etymology
The English word
alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word
alphabetum, which in turn
originated in the Greek (
alphabētos), from
alpha and
beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.
Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.
Informally the term “ABCs” is sometimes used for the alphabet as in the alphabet song, and knowing one’s ABCs for literacy, or as a metaphor for knowing the basics about anything.
In a perfectly
Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, educate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.
James Felici
Another terminology is that of deep and shallow orthographies, where the depth of an orthography is the degree to which it diverges from being truly phonemic
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