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  2. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  3. Semi-syllabary - Wikipedia

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    A northeastern non-dual Iberian semi-syllabary.. A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary.The main group of semi-syllabic writing are the Paleohispanic scripts of ancient Spain, a group of semi-syllabaries that transform redundant plosive consonants of the Phoenician alphabet into syllabograms.

  4. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    Alphabetization rules applied in various languages are listed below. In Arabic , there are two main orders of the 28 letter alphabet used today. The standard and most commonly used is the hijāʾī order, which was created by the early Arab linguist Nasr ibn 'Asim al-Laythi and features a visual ordering method where letters are ordered based ...

  5. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Phoenician 12th c. BCE . Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE . Samaritan 6th c. BCE; Aramaic 8th c. BCE . Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE; Brahmi 3rd c. BCE ()Pallava 4th century . Cham 4th century; Dhives Akuru 6th century

  6. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.

  7. Digital literacy - Wikipedia

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    Students are often taught literacy skills such as how to verify credible sources online, cite websites, and prevent plagiarism. Google and Wikipedia are frequently used by students "for everyday life research," [65] and are just two common tools that facilitate modern education. Digital technology has impacted the way materials are taught in ...

  8. Collation - Wikipedia

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    Alphabetical order is the basis for many systems of collation where items of information are identified by strings consisting principally of letters from an alphabet.The ordering of the strings relies on the existence of a standard ordering for the letters of the alphabet in question.

  9. Alphabet (formal languages) - Wikipedia

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    Alphabets are important in the use of formal languages, automata and semiautomata.In most cases, for defining instances of automata, such as deterministic finite automata (DFAs), it is required to specify an alphabet from which the input strings for the automaton are built.