If they stood for a single word, it would not be alphabetic. An alphabet is comprised of a set of symbols each of which has a sound value, so a word is a combination of several symbols.
characters stand for symbols or letters like our alphabet.
characters stand for symbols or letters like our alphabet.
The system of symbols that stood for sound in ancient Greece is known as the Greek alphabet. Developed around the 8th century BCE, it was derived from earlier Phoenician scripts and included characters representing both consonants and vowels, which was a significant advancement in written communication. The Greek alphabet laid the foundation for various writing systems, influencing Latin and other alphabets used today.
what are you talking about? Koreans don't write with symbols, they have their own alphabet. if you categorize the Korean alphabet as symbols then all the known languages write with symbols technically i guess all the writing systems are symbols because the marks stand for something else like sounds and such
Letters stand for sounds just as hieroglyphic symbols stand for sounds. ... It had 600 symbols, rather than the 26 in our alphabet. It could be written horizontally or vertically, left to right or right to left.
There is no such thing as a hieroglyphic alphabet. The Egyptians used about 700 hieroglyphs to represent the sounds and meaning of their language.See http://www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net/gardiners-sign-list/
The Phoenicians are credited with developing a writing system made up of 22 characters known as the Phoenician alphabet. This alphabet served as the basis for many modern writing systems, including Greek and Latin.
the alphabet
i think its the alphabet
the 19th letter in the alphabet
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The Phoenicians invented a phonetic alphabet, in which a letter symbolizes a sound, and those sounds can be put together to make words. Other writing systems were in the form of ideograms, in which symbols stand for ideas rather than sounds. The phonetic alphabet has proved to be tremendously more useful.