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Udege Alphabets
Udege alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Udege language. During its existence, it functioned on different graphic bases and was repeatedly reformed. Currently, the Udege script functions on two versions of the Cyrillic alphabet for two emerging literary languages, but does not have a generally accepted norm. There are 2 stages in the history of Udege writing: * 1931—1937 - writing on the Latin basis; * since the late 1980s - modern writing based on Cyrillic. Preliterate period The first reliably known fixation of the Udege language material was made in 1859 by the naturalist Richard Maack, who wrote down several local names of animals in Cyrillic in this language. In the 1880s - 1890s, Ivan Nadarov and Sergey Brailovskiy compiled the first dictionaries in which Udege words were also written in Cyrillic. Words were recorded by ear and their phonetic appearance is very inaccurate. Since 1906, a great deal of work on fixing the Udege language has been carried out by V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphabets
An alphabet is a standard set of letter (alphabet), letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken syllables, while logographies assign symbols to words, morphemes, or other semantic units. The first letters were invented in Ancient Egypt to serve as an aid in writing Egyptian hieroglyphs; these are referred to as Egyptian uniliteral signs by lexicographers. This system was used until the 5th century AD, and fundamentally differed by adding pronunciation hints to existing hieroglyphs that had previously carried no pronunciation information. Later on, these phonemic symbols also became used to transcribe foreign words. The first fully phonemic script was the Proto-Sinaitic script, also descending from Egyptian hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
