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FINDING THE RIGHT LETTERS: THE ORIGINS OF THE EARLIEST ENGLISH ALPHABET [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The present paper explores the origins in the seventh century of the Old English alphabet. It first surveys the different vernacular alphabets that would have been available as potential models or influences, Runic, Frankish, British (Welsh), and Irish ...
Patrick P O\u27Neil   +1 more
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THE PHONOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE NEW LATIN ALPHABET

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Craiova. Series Philology. Linguistics, 2022
In 2017, The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed a decree to change the Cyrillic as the basis for the Kazakh language into Latin, and that is why this article is relevant for nowadays. The purpose of the article is to analyse the phonological aspects of the new Latin alphabet of the Kazakh language.
Zaure BADANBEKKYZY   +2 more
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Écritures ordinaires en pays touareg [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
International audienceThe Tuareg have an old alphabet with characters called tafineq, a word that might refer back to the term used by the Greeks to refer to Phoenicians.
Casajus, Dominique
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Inside the Image and the Word: the Re/membering of Indigenous Identities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
By appropriating the power of writing of the phonetic Latin alphabet and recent visual technology, new generations of indigenous people from the Americas have been able to articulate and reinforce their own sense of identity from within their cultural ...
Fachin, Dina
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The "handedness" of language: Directional symmetry breaking of sign usage in words

open access: yes, 2018
Language, which allows complex ideas to be communicated through symbolic sequences, is a characteristic feature of our species and manifested in a multitude of forms.
Ashraf, Md Izhar, Sinha, Sitabhra
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Russian-to-English Homographs [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
Most dictionaries define homograph in terms of words taken from the same language, saying nothing about words from two different languages involving partially overlapping alphabets (e.g., the English Latin alphabet and the Russian Cyrillic alphabet). For
Croft, Lee B.
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Parity of Sets of Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares

open access: yes, 2017
Every Latin square has three attributes that can be even or odd, but any two of these attributes determines the third. Hence the parity of a Latin square has an information content of 2 bits.
Francetić, Nevena   +2 more
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Alexandre de Rhodes a-t-il inventé le quốc ngữ ?

open access: yesMoussons, 2014
Alexandre de Rhodes was not the inventor of quốc ngữ, latin alphabet used for the transcription of Vietnamese language. Now, we know that he was meanwhile an inescapable link of the chain of the missionaries who studied vietnamese. Until the beginning of
Alain Guillemin
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Multilingual Research Projects: Non-Latin Script Challenges for Making Use of Standards, Authority Files, and Character Recognition

open access: yesDigital Studies, 2022
Academic research about digital non-Latin script (hereafter: NLS) research data can pose a number of challenges just because the material is from a region where the Latin alphabet was not used. Not all of them are easy to spot. In this paper, I introduce
Matthias Arnold
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Exploratory proposal to encode Germanicist, Nordicist, and other phonetic characters in the UCS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is a preliminary document that presents various Latin characters for specialist phonetic use that may be eligible to add to the international character encoding standard Unicode.
Everson, Michael
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