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No. An alphabet is not a language. It is a set of symbols used to write a language. One alphabet can be used to write more than one language. Because an alphabet represents sounds, to some degree any alphabet can be used to write any language, although most languages use one preferred alphabet.
For example, Italian, French, Spanish, German and English are all written with essentially the same alphabet, called the Latin Alphabet. Russian is among the languages usually written using the Cyrillic alphabet, which looks very different from the Latin Alphabet. But it is possible to render the sounds of Russian in the Latin alphabet so that those who are only familiar with that alphabet can read and understand names and other simple written words. This widely used process sis called transliteration.
An alphabet is what makes the written part of a language. Each letter has a certain sound that it makes (typically one). These sounds are called phonemes, or the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound.
When letters are put together, they produce different series of sounds, making words, and words (as well as rules of how and how not to use them, like 'i before e except after c' and 'never start a sentence with a conjunction'), and words make up languages.
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Which language has the smallest alphabet?
The language with the smallest alphabet is probably Rotokas, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea, which has only 12 letters in its alphabet.
What language contains 36 letters in its alphabet?
The Welsh language contains 28 letters in its alphabet, while the Slovak language contains 46 letters. Neither language has an alphabet with exactly 36 letters.
The name of the alphabet used in the Russian language is?
The name of the alphabet that Russian uses is the Cyrillic Alphabet. It should be noted that many other languages also use the Cyrillic alphabet, including but not limited to: Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Serbian
Which language has the most number of alphabets?
I'm not sure, but the answer might be Mongolian, which has been written with the traditional Mongolian alphabet, the Galik alphabet, the Oirat alphabet, the Buryat alphabet, the Phags-pa script, the Soyombo script, the Latin alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet, as well as Braille.
What country has the largest alphabet?
Khmer, the language of Cambodia, has the largest alphabet with 74 characters.
Which language has the smallest alphabet?
The language with the smallest alphabet is probably Rotokas, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea, which has only 12 letters in its alphabet.
What is a native alphabet?
It is an alphabet that was created for s specific language, and not borrowed from another language.
Did language come before the alphabet?
well, i suppose a cavemans grunt could be classed as language, and its doubtful they had an alphabet. so yes, language probably came before the alphabet
What language has an alphabet with 75 letters?
There is no language that has 75 alphabets. Most languages only have 1 alphabet.
What is the 300th letter of the alphabet?
The alphabet of which language? The English Alphabet only has 26 letters.
What is the moshi alphabet?
The moshi alphabet is moshi monster language.
What language contains 36 letters in its alphabet?
The Welsh language contains 28 letters in its alphabet, while the Slovak language contains 46 letters. Neither language has an alphabet with exactly 36 letters.
What is it called when a different language is written with English alphabet?
The English Language uses the Roman Alphabet. Normally it is not noted when another language is written using the Roman Alphabet. Sometimes it is noted when referring to the Romanian Language. In Romania, the Roman Alphabet is used. In Moldavia, the Cyrillic Alphabet is used for the same language. Since all Western European Languages, except for Greek, use the Roman Alphabet, normally no one mentions it.
The Hebrew languages were used to compose which alphabet?
This question makes no sense. There is only 1 Hebrew language, and it has only one Alphabet: the Hebrew alphabet.
Is the American alphabet and the roman alphabet the same?
Technically, there is no such thing as the American alphabet, but the English language does use the Roman alphabet.
Does the Maltese language use the Arabic alphabet?
no. It uses the Latin Alphabet.
Who many letters are in the alphabet?
The English language alphabet has 26 letters.
