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unusual facts about alphabets



A with diaeresis

Ä, known as A with diaeresis or A with umlaut, a letter Ä, ä of Latin-based German, Estonian, Finnish, Slovak, Swedish, Romani and Turkmen alphabets

Aramaic alphabet

Writing systems that indicate consonants but do not indicate most vowels (like the Aramaic one) or indicate them with added diacritical signs, have been called abjads by Peter T. Daniels to distinguish them from later alphabets, such as Greek, that represent vowels more systematically.

Ayn

Ghayn (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Azerbaijani alphabets

Corfu Declaration

The Declaration as the first step toward building the new State of Yugoslavia envisaged a parliamentary monarchy under the Karađorđević dynasty, with indivisible territory and unitary power, with the three national denominations and the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets equal before the law, religious freedom and universal suffrage.

Culture of Liberia

Loma and Mende also have their own unique alphabets but are studied less.

Fénius Farsaid

Auraicept claims that Fenius Farsaidh discovered four alphabets, the Hebrew, Greek and Latin ones, and finally the Ogham, and portrays the Ogham as the most perfected because it was discovered last.

James Pitman

His major work on this topic is Alphabets and Reading: The Initial Teaching Alphabet (1965).

Klavika

South Korean bid for 2022 FIFA World Cup used Klavika for the presentation in Latin alphabets.

Mecca2Medina

They have worked with many new artists including with The Blind Alphabets and Mohammed Yahya, Missundastood of the USA, Poetic Pilgrimage, Pearls of Islam, Masika Feesibillah and Muslim Bilal.

Memory

Methods of memorizing things have been the subject of much discussion over the years with some writers, such as Cosmos Rossellius using visual alphabets.

Multialphabetism

Multialphabetism as an expression of intercultural competence, e.g. correct representation of names from other Latin alphabets with all required diacritical marks and special characters in print and online media (Potočnik instead of Potocnik, Guðmundsdóttir instead of Gudmundsdottir).

New York Point

According to Helen Keller, this caused literacy problems among blind children, and was one of the chief arguments against New York Point and in favor of one of the braille alphabets.

O with diaeresis

O with diaeresis (Latin) (Ö, ö), a letter in Latin alphabets such as Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Swedish, Romani, Turkish, Azerbaijani and Tajik

Origin of hangul

If Ledyard is correct, the graphic base of hangul is part of the great family of alphabets that spread from the Phoenician alphabet, through Aramaic, Brāhmī, and Tibetan.

Provadia

Places of interest include the Lambova Kashta ethnographical complex and ethnographical collections in Dobrina and Manastir villages, as well as cave monasteries and the ruins of the 9-10th-century Ravna Monastery, one of the most important centres of the Preslav Literary School, dubbed "language laboratory" by Umberto Eco for its graffiti by common folks in several languages and alphabets.

Qaf

Ka with descender (Қ қ), a Cyrillic letter in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Abkhaz alphabets

Romanization of Russian

American Library Association and Library of Congress (ALA-LC) romanization tables for Slavic alphabets (updated 1997) are used in North American libraries and in the British Library since 1975.

Samakh

Samekh, the Hebrew (and various other Semitic alphabets) letter

Vigenère cipher

The Gronsfeld cipher is a variant created by Count Gronsfeld which is identical to the Vigenère cipher, except that it uses just 10 different cipher alphabets (corresponding to the digits 0 to 9).

West Semitic

Abjads, consonantal alphabets used to write western Semitic languages


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