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alphabetic writing

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Noun1.alphabetic writing - a writing system based on alphabetic characters
alphabetic script
orthography, writing system - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
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Alphabetic writing makes language the first object of a genuinely scientific attention, whereupon an atomistic analysis can be applied to other, nonlinguistic, objects.
Orality literacy, and the tradition by Bertonneau, Thomas F. / Modern Age
Though David Cusick was one of the first Iroquois to record the oral literature of his nation in the alphabetic writing of Western civilization, contemporary Iroquois do not necessarily receive his work with praise.
Finding a place for David Cusick in Native American literary history by Kalter, Susan / MELUS
Alphabetic writing systems are hard to learn because the letter symbols represent the smallest meaningless sounds in words that people can hear.
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