Meaning "handwriting" is recorded from 1860. Theatrical use, short for manuscript, is attested from 1884. The importance of Rome to the spread of civilization in Europe is attested by the fact that the word for "write" in Celtic and Germanic (as well as Romanic) languages derives from scri...
Each letter is named after a part of the human body. Some have more than one meaning - the primary meanings are given in the chart below. kok also means brain, khou also means palate or neck, ngou also means larynx, thou also means chest or ribs, pham also means buttocks or uterus,...
Lepcha is also known as Lapche, Nünpa, Rongke, Rongpa, Róng, Róng-ríng or Róngkup. The name Lepcha comes from a Nepali term meaning "inarticulate speech". Lepcha speakers call their language ᰛᰩᰵᰛᰧᰵᰶ (róngríng - "language of the Róng) and themselves ᰛᰩᰵ...
The answerTruecould be interpreted as meaning that the string, which is written in Chinese, isalphabetic. From a linguistic point of view, however, this is incorrect, asthere is no alphabetin Chinese (the Chinese writing system islogographic). On the other hand, the following string, which is...
Letters (really the sounds they represent) combine to represent units of meaning, morphemes, for the language they represent, whereas logograms individually represent the morphemes directly. So really letters are equivalent to, say, the strokes of a Chinese logogram. In effect you are comparing ...
Click Here to see full-size tableThe Greek alphabet derived from theNorth Semiticscript in the 8th centurybce. The direction ofwritingin the oldest Greek inscriptions—as in the Semitic scripts—is from right to left, a style that was superseded by theboustrophedon(meaning, in Greek, “as the...