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Tiếng Việt
Alphabet — letters for consonants and vowels · written left-to-right
Separate letters for consonants and vowels — the Latin alphabet English also uses (Vietnamese leaves out f, j, w and z). It adds marks for tone (six tones in the standard Northern dialect, five in the South) and marks that change the vowel (ă â ê ô ơ ư), plus the letter đ.
мама
Alphabet — letters for consonants and vowels · written left-to-right
An alphabet like Latin, but several letters look like Latin letters and sound different: р is "r", с is "s", н is "n".
كتب
Abjad — letters mostly for consonants; vowels usually left out · written right-to-left
Written right to left. Letters stand for consonants; short vowels are usually not written, so readers supply them from the word and context. The root k-t-b (كتب) can be read as kataba "he wrote" or kutub "books".
कमल
Abugida — each consonant carries a built-in vowel that marks change · written left-to-right
Each consonant letter carries a built-in "a". A vowel mark changes it (कि = ki). In Hindi the built-in "a" is usually dropped at the end of a word, so कमल is kamal, not kamala.
ねこ
Syllabary — one sign for each syllable · written top-to-bottom or left-to-right
One sign per syllable: か is "ka", き is "ki". There is no separate letter for the k — the sign is the whole syllable.
한글
Featural alphabet — consonant shapes reflect how the sounds are made; letters stack into syllable blocks · written left-to-right
Consonant letters sketch the mouth and tongue that make them (the vowels are built from a dot, a flat line and an upright line), and letters stack into square syllable blocks: ㄴ + ㅏ = 나 (na). Each block is one syllable, read left to right and top to bottom inside the block — in 글 the letters ㄱ, ㅡ, ㄹ sit one above the other.
明
Logography — signs mainly stand for words or meaning-parts, often with a hint about the sound · written top-to-bottom or left-to-right
Characters stand mainly for meaning-units (a word or part of a word), not for individual sounds. Many are built from parts: 日 (sun) + 月 (moon) = 明 (bright); 木 (tree) doubled is 林 (woods). Most characters also contain a part that hints at the pronunciation.
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