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Alphabetic writing   /ˌælfəbˈɛtɪk rˈaɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Alphabetic writing

noun
1.
A writing system based on alphabetic characters.  Synonym: alphabetic script.






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"Alphabetic writing" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the art was invented before the Deluge: it was certainly practised long before the time of Moses. There were, doubtless, many steps taken in slow succession before the invention of alphabetic writing. Perhaps the earliest method might have been that which is still employed among the untutored tribes of North American Indians, who record events by picture-painting of the rudest description. Picture-painting was afterwards gradually converted into the hieroglyphical system, which is still ...
— A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery • Benziger Brothers



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