Alphabet

AlphabetWith, one one letter as a general rule one phoneme is displayed phonogram. As for the name Greek letter, it is derived from "alpha" "beta".

However, in Japan as for the word, "alphabet", to be widest it is the typical alphabet which has passed in the world Latin letter.

The majority of alphabets has the quality where meaning of word is decided by the combination of consonant of word stem セム languages Middle East is the beginning.Alum letterAs for emptyヘブライ letter、 Arabic letter、パフラヴィー letter、ソグド letterTo be born, from パフラヴィー letterブラフミー letterOccurring India・ southeast Asia・ Tibet, was born from ソグド letterUighur letterThe Mongolian letter、The Manchurian letterIt became. In addition,Phoenician letterThe empty reached the point where vowel is recorded Greek letter to be born, Latin letter キリル letter derived from there.

When it shows with the list, it becomes like below.

• Alum letter
  • ヘブライ letter
  • The Arabic letter
  • パフラヴィー letter
    • ブラフミー letter
      • The Indian southeast Asia & Tibet etc.
• Uighur letter
  • The Mongolian letter
  • The Manchurian letter
• Phoenician letter
  • The Greek letter
    • Latin letter
    • キリル letter

Related article

• Arabic letter
• Greek letter
• キリル letter (the Russian letter)
• Phoenician letter
• ヘブライ letter
• Latin letter - As for summary of the alphabet which is said generally Latin letter.
• Runic letter

• Spanish alphabet
• German alphabet
• Polish alphabet
• No margin letter

• linguistics - letter - phonogram