Alphabetic Writing


  • A set of written symbols which each represent a single type of sound;
  • The origins of the writing systems of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew;
  • largely consist of consonant symbols;
  • Early Greeks took the alphabetizing process a stage further by also using separate symbols to represent the vowel sounds as distinct entities.

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