| Encyclopedia: Alphabet (5970 words) |
 | An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters â basic written symbols â each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. |
| The Hawaiian alphabet is sometimes claimed to be as small, but it actually consists of 13 letters (which counts the ʻokina, which represents a consonant) and a diacritic to indicate long vowels. |
| In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling. |
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