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  • the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Twice when the phrase appears ... first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. ...
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  • | type = Alphabet | typedesc = (non-linear writing) ... advocated the use of a type of string alphabet, where knots were used to ...
    14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
  • to ordering according to letters of the alphabet. Collating lists of words ... alphabet. For example, the thirty-letter alphabet of Spanish treats ñ ...
    17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
  • An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...
    44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
  • ("time") and gramma ("letter"). In a pure chronogram ... demonstrates that the origin of the letter w as a double v or u was ...
    16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
  • script, an important precursor to the true alphabet. Ugarit's ... royal correspondence from Ugarit: one letter from King Ammittamru I and ...
    15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
  • century. It was modelled on the Landa alphabet. The name Gurmukhi means ... * It is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent ...
    20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
  • It is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda (λ). Examples of wavelike phenomena are light, water waves, and sound waves. ...
    6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
  • and those which do not use the Latin alphabet cannot be expected to use ... though each consists letters of the Latin alphabet - they are symbols intended ...
    10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
  • Bible, and inventor of the first Gothic alphabet. He was probably descended ... language after devising the first Gothic alphabet. He later participated in ...
    12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
  • and may evolve to develop syllabaries; an alphabet provides symbols for all ... Letter and word recording used to presuppose penmanship, and in earlier ...
    22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
  • and new scripts, such as the Phoenician alphabet developed, numerous clay ... [[Image:Letter Luenna Louvre AO4238.jpg|thumb|Letter sent by the high ...
    19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
  • & Sons, 1919), 310-312. In an 1879 letter to The Times (London), he ... for developing the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), a phonetically augmented ...
    12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
  • numerous benefits over Haüy's raised letter method, the most notable ... to revise and perfect his system, adding letter “w” and removing the ...
    8 KB (1,163 words) - 02:52, 4 November 2022
  • periods. The Greeks used their own alphabet for writing the Egyptian ... dozen demotic glyphs added to the Greek alphabet when writing Coptic; and ...
    23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
  • are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used ... For the purpose of this mission, they devised the Glagolitic alphabet ...
    33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
  • oldest) known samples of the use of the Greek alphabet. written in an archaic form of the Greek alphabet, with some letter shapes ...
    14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
  • These particles, designated by the Greek letter beta (β), are a form of ... In a famous letter written in 1930, Wolfgang Pauli suggested that ...
    10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
  • *In the Arabic alphabet, ٥‎ (hāʼ) has numerical value of 5. *In the Greek alphabet, ε (epsilon) has numerical value of 5. ...
    21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
  • is a matter requiring great care. Each letter must be written precisely ... to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and is divided into two ...
    13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022

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