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See also Alphabet
From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters — basic written symbols or graphemes — each of which roughly represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Alphabets are classified according to how they indicate vowels:
The word "alphabet" came into Middle English from the Late Latin word Alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Ancient Greek Αλφάβητος Alphabetos, 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 meant ox and house respectively. There are dozens of alphabets in use today. Most of them are composed of lines (linear writing); notable exceptions are Braille, fingerspelling (Sign language), and Morse code. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I am really confused about all of this phoenetics and pinyin stuff - I want to know how it all works and why learning mandarin is so different to learning e.g. the russian cyrillic alphabet or alphabets from other languages? and how do I get started learning the mandarin alphabet? Asked by Brad - Sun Oct 25 21:11:13 2009 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments A. There are no Chinese letters. Chinese uses characters. Each character represents one syllable. Some 'words' have one syllable. E.g which means 'egg' dan Some have two syllables - which means 'China' zh ng guo Some have three - meaning 'potato'. It is possible to write these using the Roman alphabet (a,b,c...). This is known as pinyin. This is only usually used by learners or to enter characters on computers and mobile phones. Using pinyin, egg is dan, China is zh ng guo and potato is m ling sh . Answered by Liuzhou Laowai - Mon Oct 26 00:34:36 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "alphabet" |
