abugida / abjad
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prettygoodwordabugida (ay-boo-GEE-duh) - n., a writing system in which each symbol represents a syllable of a consonant + vowel where each consonant and vowel sound is consistently represented.
abjad (ahb-DJAHD) - n., a writing system in which each symbol represents a consonant sound, with vowel sounds left unspecified.
Hindi, Ojibwe, and Ethiopic (the Ge'ez alphabet) are examples of abugidas, and Hebrew and Arabic are examples of abjads. In the Indic family, the base letter is a consonant sound, and a diacrit mark indicates the vowel, while in the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Ojibwe, the orientation of the consonant mark indicates the vowel. Both names were coined by linguist Peter T. Daniels, taking abugida from the first four letters of the Ge'ez alphabet, รค bu gi da, and abjad from the Arabic word for that alphabet, also taken from the first four letters. Wikipedia bas much more.
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abjad (ahb-DJAHD) - n., a writing system in which each symbol represents a consonant sound, with vowel sounds left unspecified.
Hindi, Ojibwe, and Ethiopic (the Ge'ez alphabet) are examples of abugidas, and Hebrew and Arabic are examples of abjads. In the Indic family, the base letter is a consonant sound, and a diacrit mark indicates the vowel, while in the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Ojibwe, the orientation of the consonant mark indicates the vowel. Both names were coined by linguist Peter T. Daniels, taking abugida from the first four letters of the Ge'ez alphabet, รค bu gi da, and abjad from the Arabic word for that alphabet, also taken from the first four letters. Wikipedia bas much more.
---L.
