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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Abugida
		Abugida is a term coined by Peter T. Daniels[?] for a script whose basic signs denote consonants with an inherent vowel and where consistent modifications of the basic sign indicate other following vowels than the inherent one.
		Thus, in an abugida there is no sign for "k", but instead one for "ka" (if "a" is the inherent vowel), and "ke" is written by modifying the "ka" sign in a way that is consistent with how one would modify "la" to get "le".
		The largest single group of abugidas is the Brahmic family of scripts, however, which includes nearly all the scripts used in India and Southeast Asia.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ab/Abugida (258 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alphasyllabary
		Some abugidas, especially those in the Brahmic family of scripts, feature a mark called a halant or (in Sanskrit) virama, which suppresses a character's inherent vowel, reducing it to a lone consonant.
		An abugida, alphasyllabary, or syllabics is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified with extensions or diacritical marks to indicate other vowels, or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel.
		An abugida is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with similar sounds look nothing like one another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where separate symbols are used to denote the consonants and the vowels.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alphasyllabary (483 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Abugida
		An abugida, according to Daniels, is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with similar sounds look nothing like one another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where separate symbols are used to denote the consonants and the vowels, although even here some written consonants may acquire vowel characterizations.
		In the family of abugidas known as Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, vowels are indicated by rotation and / or inversion of the akshara.
		Most Indian and Indochinese abugidas appear to have first evolved from abjads with the Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī scripts; the abjad in question is usually considered to be the Aramaic one, but while the link between Aramaic and Kharosthi is more or less undisputed, this is not the case with Brahmi.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Abugida (1401 words)

	ABUGIDA : Encyclopedia Entry
		An abugida is a term coined by Peter T. Daniels to describe a segmental writing system in which each letter (basic character) represents a consonant accompanied by a specific vowel; other vowels are indicated by modification of the consonant sign, either by means of diacritics or through a change in the form of the consonant.
		An abugida, according to Daniels, is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with consonants or vowels in common show no particular resemblance to each another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where independent letters are used to denote consonants and vowels.
		In the family of abugidas known as Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, vowels are indicated by changing the orientation of the akshara.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Abugida (1482 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Syllabary
		Indian languages and Ethiopian languages have a type of alphabet called an abugida or alphasyllabary.
		These are sometimes mistaken for syllabaries, but unlike in syllabaries, all syllables starting with the same consonant are based on the same symbol, and generally more than one symbol is needed to represent a syllable.
		Compare abugida, where each grapheme typically represents a syllable but where characters representing related sounds are similar graphically (typically, a common consonantal base is annotated in a more or less consistent manner to represent the vowel in the syllable).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Syllabary (572 words)

	Is the Syllabics orthography an Abugida?
		Abugida is a term coined by Peter T. Daniels for a script whose basic signs denote consonants with an inherent vowel and where consistent modifications of the basic sign indicate other following vowels than the inherent one.
		Thus, in an abugida there is no sign for "k", but instead one for "ka" (if "a" is the inherent vowel), and "ke" is written by modifying the "ka" sign in a way that is consistent with how one would modify "la" to get "le".
		In many abugidas the modification is the addition of a vowel sign, but other possibilities are imaginable (and used), such as rotation of the basic sign, addition of diacritical marks, and so on.
	www.languagegeek.com /syl/abugida.html (1589 words)

	Abugida
		Abugida is a term coined by Peter T. Daniels[?] for a script whose basic signs denote consonants with an inherent vowel and where consistent modifications of the basic sign indicate other following vowels than the inherent one.
		Thus, in an abugida there is no sign for "k", but instead one for "ka" (if "a" is the inherent vowel), and "ke" is written by modifying the "ka" sign in a way that is consistent with how one would modify "la" to get "le".
		The largest single group of abugidas is the Brahmic family of scripts, however, which includes nearly all the scripts used in India and Southeast Asia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ab/Abugida.html (233 words)

	Abugida - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		An abugida is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with similar sounds look nothing like one another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where separate symbols are used to denote the consonants and the vowels, althougheven here some written consonants may acquire vowel characterizations.
		In the family of abugidas known as Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, vowels are indicated by rotation and / or inversion of the akshara.
		Historically, abugidas appear to have evolved from abjads (vowelless alphabets).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Abugida (1316 words)

	Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary, as a glyph stands for a consonant and is rotated to represent the vowel, rather than each consonant-vowel combination being represented by a separate glyph, as in a true syllabary.
		Conversely, the vowel marks of the Ethiopic abugida have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the system is learned as a Syllabary rather than as a segmental script.
		In the Pollard script (an abugida), vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the vowel relative to the consonant indicates the tone.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/al/Alphabet.htm (2021 words)

	Abugida - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Template:IndicText An abugida, alphasyllabary, or syllabics is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified with extensions or diacritical marks to indicate other vowels, or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel.
		An abugida is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with similar sounds look nothing like one another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where separate symbols are used to denote the consonants and the vowels.
		In the family of abugidas known as Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, vowels are indicated by rotation and / or inversion of the akshara.
	www.recipeland.com /facts/Abugida (1230 words)

	Abugida (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An abugida is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with similar sounds look nothing like one another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where separate symbols are used to denote the consonants and the; vowels, although even here some written consonants may acquire vowel characterizations.
		In the family of abugidas known as Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, vowels are indicated by rotation and / or inversion of the akshara.
		There are several abugidas of Indonesia which also indicate final consonants with diacritics, but usually these are restricted to one or two nasals such as /Å/.
	www.zdnet.co.za /wiki/Abugida (1609 words)

	Alphabet information - Search.com
		The Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotatation to represent the following vowel.
		Conversely, the vowel marks of the Amharic abugida have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.
		In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the diacritic relative to the consonant is modified to indicate the tone.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Alphabet (2581 words)

	abugida Information Center - abugida
		An abugida or alphasyllabary is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels (or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel).
		In many of the Brahmic scripts, a syllable beginning with a cluster abugida is treated as a single character for purposes of vowel marking, so a vowel marker like ि-i, falling before the character it modifies, may appear several postions before the place where it is pronounced.
		The largest family of abugidas, however, is the Brahmic family of scripts, which includes nearly all the scripts used in India and Southeast Asia.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_A_-_Co/abugida.html (656 words)

	Abugida Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An abugida, alphasyllabary, or syllabics is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified with extensions or diacritical marks to indicate other vowels, or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel.
		An abugida is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with similar sounds look nothing like one another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where separate symbols are used to denote the consonants and the vowels.
		Though now an abugida, there is evidence that the Ge'ez alphabet was actually an abjad until the 4th century AD.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Abugida (1228 words)

	Alphabet information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotatation to represent the following vowel.
		Conversely, the vowel marks of the Amharic abugida have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.
		In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the diacritic relative to the consonant is modified to indicate the tone.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Alphabet (2581 words)

	abugida@Everything2.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An abugida, also called an alphasyllabary, is a writing system wherein the basic symbols represent a consonant plus an unmarked vowel.
		The word "abugida" comes from the first few signs of the Ethiopic Amharic script, which is an example of an abugida.
		To add to Muke's node, the term abugida, like alphabet and abjad, is a kind of acronym of the names of the first few symbols in one of the writing systems it refers to.
	www.everything2.org /index.pl?node=abugida (229 words)

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		The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin (via the Old Italic alphabet), Cyrillic (via the Greek alphabet) and Hebrew (via Aramaic).
		Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida (ironically, the original source of the term "abugida") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.
		In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole – that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.
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