orthography
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- noun
- /ɔrˈθɒɡrəfi/
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ortografía
- Yoruba's history as an oral language becomes apparent as one finds multiple variations on the language's orthography used on buses.
- alphabetic orthography
- orthography and phonology
- orthography and morphology
Examples
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Teachers often emphasize the importance of correct orthography in writing lessons.
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But what you do not know is that Jan Hus was also a great reformer of orthography.
Fiction book (1996) -
But roughly speaking, orthography is to language as number systems are to math.
Blog text (5) -
The third approach is concerned with the relationship between orthography and phonology.
Academic text (1990) -
In general, I have respected the orthography of that edition and have not added accents or modern punctuation.
Academic text (1998) -
I have not attempted to update Goddard's orthography or clarify his translations.
Academic text (1999) -
The origin of the Kiowa Gourd Clan is uncertain, and the orthography is problematic.
Academic text (1994) -
Medieval Yiddish can be accurately rendered with German orthography, but 19th-century Yiddish is a significantly different beast.
Blog text (7) -
The dominance of orthographical revision is obvious as 94% of the revisions pertain to orthography, as opposed to phonological, semantic, and syntactic revisions.
Academic text (2006) -
The manuscript was carefully edited to ensure that its orthography followed standard conventions.
Synonyms
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A way to show a language's words using letters or characters
A writing system where symbols show speech sounds
Compounds
The usual spelling and rules used in the UK and many Commonwealth countries, different from American spelling
- Canadian
A set of spellings used in Canada that mixes British and American forms
The spelling used in the UK and many Commonwealth countries, for example colour and centre
- Specialized
Spelling used in the United States, for example color instead of colour
- Australian
Spelling and writing rules used in Australia for English
A way of spelling English used in Ireland that is similar to British spelling but with some Irish differences
- New Zealand
The rules for spelling, capital letters, hyphens, and punctuation in New Zealand English
The spelling rules used in American English, for example analyze and center
How Phonetic
- Specialized
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word orthography comes from Greek parts ortho- meaning 'correct' and -graphy meaning 'writing'. So orthography is literally 'correct writing' and today it means the rules for spelling and how to write a language.