Abugida
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abugida-181-15009518
title:
Abugida
text:
An abugida – sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabet – is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, similar to a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent, partial, or optional – in less formal contexts, all three types of the script may
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wiki
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Writing system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida
date created:
2001-11-13T15:56:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T03:40:52Z
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