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  Alphabet
An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters--basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language.
The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet.
Alphabetic material was uncovered at Serabit el-Khadem in Sinai in 1905 and at Ugarit in Syria in 1929.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/al/alphabet.html   (1024 words)

  
  List of writing systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alphabets:  Latin ,  Cyrillic ,  Latin and Cyrillic ,  Greek ,  Georgian or Armenian 
Linear alphabets are composed of lines on a surface, such as ink on paper.
Manual alphabets are frequently found as parts of sign languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_alphabets   (1628 words)

  
 Alphabet
An alphabet is a small set of letters--basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language.
The first alphabet was probably developed by the Canaanites around 1700-1500 BC (see early Semitic alphabet), and nearly all subsequent alphabets are derived from it or inspired by it, directly or indirectly.
Of special note among its descendants is the Greek alphabet, which was the first to have separate symbols for vowels (Semitic didn't need them).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alphabet.html   (820 words)

  
 Alphabet - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—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.
Notable exceptions are the Braille alphabet, Morse Code and the cuneiform alphabet of the ancient city of Ugarit.
The Aramaic alphabet, which evolved from Phoenician in the 7th century BC and was used by the Persian Empire, is the ancestor of nearly all of the modern alphabets of Asia.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=670   (2336 words)

  
 List of science topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of topics in various sciences.
List of letters used in mathematics and science
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_science_topics   (140 words)

  
 Greatest Inventions-- The Alphabet
Sanskrit is written in an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the long els is theoretical and not actually used.
Latin alphabet to write all of its own words, but certain letters (such as K, X and W) are retained for the purpose of writing "foreign" words.
Santali alphabet, an indigenous true alphabet of India, appears to be based on traditional symbols such as "danger" and "meeting place", as well as pictographs invented by its creator.
www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/alphabet.htm   (2709 words)

  
 Alphabet - FrathWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The first alphabet in the wider sense was the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician became the ancestor of all later alphabets.
Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.
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.
wiki.frath.net /Alphabet   (2071 words)

  
 Yashpal Subedi - Extended Resume - Nepali (Nepalese) Alphabet and Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Nepalese alphabet, and the Nepali language itself, owes its roots to Sanskrit - one of the oldest languages of the world.
The alphabets for the most part are arranged in sets according to how they are pronounced.
The following is the variant of the word "you" listed in the order from most respectful to least formal.
homepages.cae.wisc.edu /~subedi/nepali_alphabet.htm   (330 words)

  
 The HC-9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Each "pinwheel" advances one space for every letter enciphered, and their outputs are used to select one of sixteen cipher alphabets as follows: four bits are formed from the five bits presented by the five sequences by taking the XOR of each pair of adjacent bits.
Thus, the XOR of the bits from the 29-bit and 31-bit sequences controls displacing the list of alphabets by eight places.
These alphabets were all chosen to be reciprocal in practice for ease of use.
www.quadibloc.com /crypto/ro020602.htm   (209 words)

  
 CSS3 Module: Lists Comments
The alphabets of the nations located on the territories of the former USSR are mainly based on the modern Russian alphabet.
There probably are other alphabets especially on the territory of the former USSR but their inclusion into this table at this point seems to be inappropriate as they’ve been used by an extremely small number of speakers.
On the whole lists on the web in many cases seem to be as complex as fonts, that’s why CSS3 Lists Module [CSS3-Lists] authors might want to consider the possibility of adding a new at-rule to the spec.
www.ethiopic.org /w3c/css/WD-css3-lists-20020220-comments.html   (7341 words)

  
 Evertype: The Alphabets of Europe
Accordingly, languages are listed by family and subfamily in clause 1.2.1, and alphabetically in clause 1.2.2.
The repertoire is given, in an alphabetical order as found in the sources, and includes digraphs, trigraphs, or tetragraphs used as “letters” for alphabetizing, when a language is subject to this practice.
Letters in (parentheses) are fundamental letters normal to the alphabet of a languages, used in writing native or naturalized (non-foreign) words, but which are, in the sources, interfiled with the base letter.
www.evertype.com /alphabets   (3504 words)

  
 Math Maze - Be Maze-merised - Hangman
The objective of the game is to guess all the words correctly based on the clues given and making no more than 6 mistakes in guessing the alphabets of each word.
A set of clues will be given for each word and you can choose the alphabets you want to guess from the list of alphabets given.
This can be done by pressing the ALT key together with the alphabet.
library.thinkquest.org /05aug/01951/hangman.htm   (227 words)

  
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Each symbol in the list must be member of different sub-alphabet in the order defined by the alphabets attribute.
For example, codons can be represented by a compound Alphabet of three DNA Alphabets, in which case the get_symbol(List[ a,g,t]) method of the Alphabet returns Symbol for the codon agt.
List is empty for leaf nodes 5.2.21 Taxon Taxonomy extends TreeNode and BioObject.
www.omg.org /docs/lsr/01-03-04.txt   (4607 words)

  
 List of science topics
This is a list of topics in various sciences.
\n*List of sociological topics\n*List of ethnic groups\n**List of Australian Aboriginal tribes\n**List of Chinese ethnic groups\n**List of communities in Nunavut\n**List of ethnic groups in Laos\n**List of ethnic groups in Vietnam\n* List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations\n*List of literature on rural issues\n*Types of rural communities
\n* list of academic disciplines\n* list of articles by category Category:Topic lists
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/l/li/list_of_science_topics.html   (332 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of writing systems
Linear alphabets are composed of lines on a surface, such as ink on paper.
Manual alphabets are frequently found as parts of sign languages.
A number of manuscripts from comparable recent past may be written in an invented writing system, a cipher of an existing writing system or may only be a hoax.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_alphabets   (1565 words)

  
 Coverage of European languages by ISO Latin alphabets
An exclamation mark (!) indicates that the alphabet is not listed in the Annex among those covering the language, but one can present arguments why it could be listed as such, at least with reservations.
A question mark (?) indicates that the alphabet is listed in the Annex (without reservations) as covering the language, but there are in fact limitations in the coverage.
However, alphabet 7 was developed to cover the needs of Latin-alphabet languages spoken in countries bordering the Baltic Sea ("Baltic Rim"), and Polish is explicitly mentioned among those languages in the definition of alphabet 7 (i.e.
www.indwes.edu /Faculty/bcupp/things/Characters/8859.html   (849 words)

  
 Alphabet
One measure of alphabet quality or phonemicity is the number of sounds divided by the number of symbols.
The first alphabet that has been recovered was developed in Ugarit (in modern Syria), about 1500 BCE, initially to represent the sounds of a Semitic language using cuneiform.
Of special note among its descendants is the Greek alphabet, derived from Minoan Linear B (used as a syllabary) with the innovation of separate symbols for vowels (Semitic didn't need them).
www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/alphabet.htm   (2776 words)

  
 Alphabet (biojava 1.3pre3 API)
If the alphabet wishes to propagate that the symbol has changed state, then previous and current should be null, but the chainedEvent property should rever to the ChangeEvent on the unerlying Symbol.
The symbol at i in the list must be a member of the i'th alphabet in getAlphabets.
An alphabet contains an ambiguity symbol iff the ambiguity symbol's getMatches() returns an alphabet that is a proper sub-set of this alphabet.
www.biojava.org /docs/api/org/biojava/bio/symbol/Alphabet.html   (653 words)

  
 List of Japanese female porn stars - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is a list of Japanese pornographic actors (also called porn stars) who appeared in Japanese pornographic videos and movies.
This listing is alphabetic by family name followed by their names in Japanese.
This list does not contain any seiyuu who appeared in a H anime nor characters who appeared in them.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/List_of_Japanese_female_porn_stars   (151 words)

  
 Creating word library from word list file
The word list file should contain one word or phrase in each line.
If the word list file doesn't contain frequency count for each word, select "Spell Only" as the word list file format.
If your word list file doesn't have a frequency count, leave the minimum frequency as 1.
www.flashpeak.com /icomp/help/implist.htm   (323 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 8.472: Alphabets,Traditional Medicine Research
That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list.
gives the history of the alphabet in Greece in a single wonderful sentence, quote: they took Phoenician, added vowels, and turned it into Greek...) The course was advertised to the whole campus and drew a whopping 30, which makes the deans happier than a language course of 15.
As it is, they are uncomfortable not seeing where they are moving to because they don't appreciate how their own alphabet works with their sound system.
www.linguistlist.org /issues/8/8-472.html   (722 words)

  
 Serialized Form (biojava 1.3pre3 API)
To prevent duplication of a what should be a single instance of an existing alphabet.
A list of alphabets that make up this one - a singleton list containing this.
The list of ungapped blocks that align between source and this view.
www.biojava.org /docs/api/serialized-form.html   (210 words)

  
 Ahwan - The Spiritual Approach to Life
So, the interesting idea is to see how all the alphabets and the entire spectrum of sounds produced by them could some how be used to form a very special word so that nothing is left out.
This means that when we say AUM we encompass all the alphabets and all the sounds in one single word.
Without uttering all the alphabets, you have indeed covered the entire domain from where the alphabets spring from.
www.ahwan.org /article33c.htm   (575 words)

  
 Topic list: Alphabets - Scrapbook.com
I mean if i print alphabets out, its such a hassle cutting them out, they're never neatly done, when i do them.
You would buy the Sizzlits to use with it and their are many alphabet fonts to choose from.
The alphabets, each letter is on its own die, about the same size as the Sizzix "green" dies.
www.scrapbook.com /forums/showtopic.php?tid/1391305/pid/2870273/post/last/m/1   (834 words)

  
 Alphabets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
More than 65 exquisite alphabets are shown in vivid color photos and detailed close-ups of individual letters and motifs make it easy for the embroiderer to recreate any one of these masterpieces.
Also, in addition to the 38 alphabet styles, 11 number styles and 41 border patterns, the complete pattern for the sampler depicted in picture #7 (bottom left corner) is included.
The alphabets are both simple and elegant and range in size from 4 stitches high to 60 stitches high.
www.madsamplarbooks.com /Alphabets.htm   (3529 words)

  
 Inference Group: Проект Dasher: Japanese alphabets
For the last two years, our only Japanese alphabets have been Hiragana60 and Hiragana83.
The first, alphabet.Japanese.xml, includes 7000 Kanji sorted into an order recommended on an alphabetization webpage.
On Tue 10/8/04 I added several more punctuation characters, including middle-dot and Japanese comma, plus lower and upper case romaji to the alphabet.Joyo.xml alphabets.
www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk /dasher/russian/meeting0407.html   (214 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Languages & Translations
Also includes a list of Latin and Hungarian terms for occupations and causes of death.
In genealogical research Latin terms are often encountered in church records and legal documents, this list is intended to aid the genealogist in interpreting those terms.
Mailing lists are interactive e-mail forums that are free for you to subscribe to and participate in.
www.cyndislist.com /language.htm   (1832 words)

  
 AlphabetManager (biojava 1.3pre3 API)
As such, ever alphabet contains gap, as there is no symbol that matches gap, so there is no case where an alphabet doesn't contain a symbol that matches gap.
If you are working in a cross-product alphabet, you should chose whether to use gap to represent 'no symbol', or a basis symbol of the appropriate size built entirely of gaps to represent 'no symbol in each of the slots'.
It will be as long as the list, and if any of the alphabets in the list have a dimension greater than 1, it will also insert the appropriate gap there.
biojava.org /docs/api/org/biojava/bio/symbol/AlphabetManager.html   (1158 words)

  
 Packet: Emergency Checklist
With all the earthquakes and such lately, it is a good idea to have the necessary equipment available to be able to respond to the emergency in a timely manner.
This is a "quick list" that I use to round up the things that I need in a hurry.
They attempt to list all the materials that might be needed to operate a station during an emergency.
www.wolfswords.com /ham/packet/packet_emergencylist.html   (1358 words)

  
 XML Reference Guide > WordML Part 2: Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A numbered list can use a number of different schemes, such as Arabic (1, 2, 3...), Roman (I, II, III...) or aphabetical (A, B, C...) in various alphabets.
Using the list element, we've defined a list that we can refer to by its ilfo value (in this case, 1), and we've linked it to list definition number 0.
Interestingly, they are actually just another form of numbered list, but instead of a number, they use a particular character:...
www.informit.com /guides/content.asp?g=xml&seqNum=177   (987 words)

  
 PocketBreeze 5.2 Public Beta 1 Released!! - SBSH Mobile Software Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Those of you who are looking for a more detailed list of changes in this new version will find it in the version history section included in the readme.html file in the downloadable ZIP file at the bottom of this post.
If you have both the Latin and Hebrew alphabets active at the same time, for example, when you perform a sequence search while the Latin search panel is active, the same button position corresponding to Hebrew letters will also be searched through your contacts.
When you check this new option, all tasks that include a reminder on the Calendar tab will be sorted along with appointments based on their reminder time, as if they were part of the appointments list within each day activities.
www.sbsh.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=14393   (3035 words)

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