the alphabet for your enjoyment
by Whitney and Stephanie October 05, 2004
An alphabet is a standard set of letters that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries (in which each character represents a syllable) and logographies (in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit).
The Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is the first fully phonemic script. Thus the Phoenician alphabet is considered to be the first alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and possibly Brahmic.12 Under a terminological distinction promoted by Peter T. Daniels, an "alphabet" is a script that represents both vowels and consonants as letters equally. In this narrow sense of the word the first "true" alphabet was the Greek alphabet,34 which was developed on the basis of the earlier Phoenician alphabet. In other alphabetic scripts such as the original Phoenician, Hebrew or Arabic, letters predominantly or exclusively represent consonants; such a script is also called an abjad. A third type, called abugida or alphasyllabary, is one where vowels are shown by diacritics or modifications of consonantal base letters, as in Devanagari and other South Asian scripts. The Khmer alphabet (for Cambodian) is the longest, with 74 letters.5
The Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is the first fully phonemic script. Thus the Phoenician alphabet is considered to be the first alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and possibly Brahmic.12 Under a terminological distinction promoted by Peter T. Daniels, an "alphabet" is a script that represents both vowels and consonants as letters equally. In this narrow sense of the word the first "true" alphabet was the Greek alphabet,34 which was developed on the basis of the earlier Phoenician alphabet. In other alphabetic scripts such as the original Phoenician, Hebrew or Arabic, letters predominantly or exclusively represent consonants; such a script is also called an abjad. A third type, called abugida or alphasyllabary, is one where vowels are shown by diacritics or modifications of consonantal base letters, as in Devanagari and other South Asian scripts. The Khmer alphabet (for Cambodian) is the longest, with 74 letters.5
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by aubsie November 18, 2020
Someone who is purely fucking bored trying to study for finals but decides to see how fast they can type the alphabet instead. You are going to fail your final so x this out and go fucking study
by I AM YOUR DADDY BITCH December 12, 2017
The alphabet!!!!!!!!!!!
Teacher: Let's Sing!!
Kids: NO!!
Teacher: I said YES!!!
Kids: AH!!!!
Kids: Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!!!
Kids: NO!!
Teacher: I said YES!!!
Kids: AH!!!!
Kids: Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!!!
by Cosmo, wanda and poof! June 04, 2009
baby1: YES! I finally got my cocomelon degree. baby2: WHAT IS A COCOMELON DEGREE. baby3: its when you know how to do this: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz dummy.
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