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  Rotokas language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rotokas is a language (part of the East Papuan language family) spoken by some 4000 people in Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea.
The Rotokas alphabet is perhaps the smallest in use (only Pirahã has been claimed to have fewer speech sounds, but it is not written).
Typologically, Rotokas is a fairly typical verb-final language, with adjectives and demonstrative pronouns preceding the nouns they modify, and postpositions following.
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 Alphabet - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Among alphabets, one may distinguish abjads, which only record consonants; alphabets which record consonants and vowels separately, called simply alphabets and first developed by the Greeks; and abugidas, in which the vowels are indicated by systematic modification of the form of the consonants.
The Aramaic alphabet was probably also the ancestor of the Brahmic alphabets of India, which spread to Southeast Asia and Indonesia with the spread of Buddhism and Hinduism.
The alphabets of Europe, including the Roman alphabet and its descendants and the Cyrillic alphabet, developed for the eastern Slavic languages, and the runic alphabets are all themselves descended from the Greek alphabet.
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 Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Although manual alphabets are a direct continuation of the local alphabet (both the British two-handed and the French/American one-handed alphabets retain the forms of the Latin alphabet, as the does Devanagari, and the does Hangul), Braille, semaphore, maritime signal flags, and the Morse codes are essentially arbitrary geometric forms.
The Aramaic alphabet, which evolved from Phoenician in the 7th century BC and was used by the Persian Empire, appears to be the ancestor of nearly all of the modern alphabets of Asia.
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 Rotokas language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rotokas is a language spoken by some 4000 people in Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea.
Its main claim to fame is that it possesses one of the world's smallest phonemic inventories and perhaps the smallest alphabet: 6 consonants (written p t/s k v r g) and 5 (perhaps 10) vowels (written a e i o u).
The Rotokas alphabet is perhaps the smallest in use.
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 ALPHABET FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the ''visarga'' mark for final aspiration and special letters for '';'' and ''jñ'', though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.
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 Information on Alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
This is the case for Vietnamese alphabet (a true alphabet) and Thai alphabet (an abugida).
In a perfectly Phonology 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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 Encyclopedia: Rotokas alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Rotokas alphabet used in writing the Rotokas language is a subset of the Latin alphabet consisting of only the eleven letters: A E I K O P R S T U V, and is arguably the smallest alphabet of any known language, save the Pirahã language.
The S is sometimes written G, and the V is sometimes written B. Rotokas is a language spoken in Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea.
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.
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 Rotokas alphabet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Rotokas alphabet used in writing the Rotokas language is a subset of the Latin alphabet consisting of only the twelve letters: A E I G K O P R S T U V, and is the smallest alphabet in use today.
The majority of the Rotokas people are literate in their language.
See Pahlavi for a similarly small alphabet of the first millennium.
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 toolhost.com >> Alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
When written in Devanagari, Vedic 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 long els is theoretical and not actually used.
The largest true alphabet where each letter is graphically independent is probably Georgian, with 41.
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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An alphabet is a complete standardized set of lettersandmdash;basic written symbolsandmdash;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 18 letters, including the and#8216;okina and five long vowels.
When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kand#353; and jñ, though one of the long els is theoretical and not actually used.
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 ipedia.com: Rotokas language Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rotokas is a language spoken in Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea.
Its main claim to fame, linguistically speaking, is that it possesses one of the world's smallest phonemic inventories: 6 consonants (p t k v r g) and 5 vowels (a e i o u); the /t/ phoneme has the allophone [s] before /i/.
Thus, the Rotokas alphabet consists of the twelve letters AEIGKOPRSTUV.
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Once upon a time, the Greek alphabet was something that a New Testament scholar or rush-obsessed college student might spout off, not someone checking the weather report..
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Learn more about Alphabet in the online encyclopedia.
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Writing without using a particular letter or letters is a type of constrained writing called a lipogram.
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There exists a veritable alphabet soup of DSL modems, line length is displayed on the front of the unit and can be set via a rotary encoder.
a character dial on the periphery of which are printed the letters of the alphabet and digits 0 to 9.
A rotary encoder encodes the movement of the dial.
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 Rotokas alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Rotokas alphabet used in writing the Rotokas language is a subset of the Latin alphabet consisting of only the eleven letters AEIKOPRSTUV, and is arguably the smallest alphabet of any known language.
The S is sometimes written G, and the V is sometimes written B. presented by www.termsdefined.net
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Rotokas is a language spoken in Bougainville, an island to the East of Papua New Guinea.
Its main claim to fame, linguistically speaking, is that it possesses one of the world's smallest phonemic
The Rotokas alphabet used in writing the Rotokas language is a subset of the Latin alphabet consisting of only the eleven letters AEIKOPRSTUV, and is arguably the smallest alphabet of any known
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 Alphabet - guideofcasinos.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Rotokas - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Rotokas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Rotokas is a weapons surrender agreement between warring factions on Bougainville, currently in Papua New Guinea.
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Rotokas alphabet
Rotokas alphabet
article at Free Euro Online Encyclopedia
It uses material from the wikipedia article Rotokas alphabet.
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