alphabetic writing
- noun
- /ˌælfəˈbɛtɪk ˈraɪtɪŋ/
- Specialized
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escritura alfabética
- Many cultures developed their own alphabetic writing systems, allowing for more effective communication through written language.
Examples
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Unfortunately, the colonial implementation of English alphabetic writing engendered mainly negative moments for America's first peoples, and was primarily used to develop a new political anatomy of the aboriginal body.
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The rise of Western-alphabetic writing in Kikongo gave drivers and owners new media for deepening smooth passage with self-assertion and social commentary.
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While most 19th-century students were subjected to this regime, American Indian students experienced the gymnastics of alphabetic writing in a context of epistemic and physical violence.
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At that time, the Etruscans adopted the concept of alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians by way of the Greeks and adapted the Greek alphabet to fit their language.
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To perceive their more genuine innovations, one need only understand how disciplines such as bell schedules or alphabetic writing established a whole new set of body-object articulations and, in so doing, transformed the Native production of knowledge.
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The students learned to read and write using an alphabetic writing system that helps them understand the sounds of letters.
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In her research, she compared the effects of alphabetic writing on literacy rates across different countries.
Synonyms
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4.1
A set of letters or symbols used to write a language
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3.5
A way to show a language's words using letters or characters
A writing system that uses letters to show spoken sounds
How Pictorial
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'alphabetic' (using letters) with 'writing' (a system or practice of producing text), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to a writing system that uses an alphabet. This is a compositional, cross-linguistically common term (e.g., French 'écriture alphabétique', Spanish 'escritura alfabética'), so despite being somewhat technical it remains transparent to learners.
Etymology
Alphabetic writing comes from the idea of using a small set of letters where each sign stands for one sound. So, instead of drawing whole pictures, alphabetic writing uses letter signs to 'represent sounds', and that is why it means 'a system of writing where symbols represent individual sounds or letters'.