Letter (alphabet)
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A letter is a grapheme (written character) in an alphabetic system of writing, such as the Greek alphabet and its descendants.
Description
Letters also appear in abjads and abugidas (variants of alphabets in which vowel marking is secondary or absent). Letters broadly denote phonemes in the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent exact correspondence between letters and phonemes.
Written signs in other writing systems are best called syllabograms (which denote a syllable) or logograms (which denote a word or phrase).
See also
- Abecedarium
- Artificial script
- Character (computing)
- Collation
- Diacritic
- Digraph (orthography)
- Glyph
- Grapheme
- Greek letters used in mathematics
- History of the alphabet
- Letterform
- Ligature
- Orthography
- Roman letters used in mathematics
- Symbol
- Typeface
- Typography
- Unicode
- Writing
- Writing system
External links
- Letter (alphabet) @ Wikipedia
