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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Brahmic family (3822 words) |
 | The Middle Bronze Age alphabets are two similar but undeciphered scripts, dated to be from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 BCE), and believed to be ancestral to nearly all modern alphabets: the Proto-Sinaitic script discovered in the winter of 1904-1905 by William Flinders Petrie, and dated to... |
 | The Nabatean alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (abjad) that was used by the Nabateans in the 2nd century BC. |
 | The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans. |
| Hanunóo alphabet and language (242 words) |
 | About 70% of the Hanunóo are able to read and write their language, and there is at least one person in each family who is literate. |
 | Hanunóo is a syllabic alphabet in which each consonant has an inherent vowel [a]. |
 | Hanunóo is traditionally written with the point of a knife on bamboo in vertical columns from bottom to top and left to right. |