Alphabetic Writing

• A set of written symbols which each represent a single type of sound;
• The origins of the writing systems of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew;
• largely consist of consonant symbols;
• Early Greeks took the alphabetizing process a stage further by also using separate symbols to represent the vowel sounds as distinct entities.

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See also:

• Symbols
• Pictograms
• Logograms
• Syllabic Writing
• Alphabetic Writing