The Aramaean alphabet lived only for seven or eight centuries; but from it sprang the scripts of five great faiths of Asia and the three great literary alphabets of the East.
Alphabets have been affected by religious controversies, spread by missionaries, and preserved in distant regions by holy faith, in spite of persecution and perversion.
Indian alphabets have spread to Tibet, Cambodia, Java and Korea.
At the present time the Arabic alphabet is used on the mainland, but Indian alphabets in Java, Sumatra, &c.
Some connexion between Babylonia and China is generally admitted, and all Indian alphabets seem traceable to a Semitic original borrowed in the course of commerce from the Persian Gulf.
All the alphabets seem to have been invented separately, but they have been improved by the regular and philosophical arrangement of the Devanagri.
The same admiration for the inventors of alphabets is, moreover, exhibited among all ancient nations.
Introduction of Hellenic Alphabets into Italy The art of expressing sounds by written signs was of later origin than the art of measurement.
A Catalogue of Dictionaries, Vocabularies, Grammars, and Alphabets in Two Parts.
All alphabets have been deduced from pictographs, and the symbol that represents any given sound has no reference to the organs that produced it.
He should so memorize thealphabets to be used that no letter combination will require thought to determine its meaning.
Considering that the divergence of two alphabets (like the difference of two dialects) requires both time and familiar use, we may gather from these facts that writing was well known in Greece early in the 7th century B.
But it probably was also in vogue because it lent itself to filling up spaces caused by alphabets not completing a line, and also because it allowed of variation through the coronets used by different ranks of nobility.
Originally a pattern sheet of devices and ornaments, there were added to it in time alphabets and numerals of various kinds, which the increased luxury of the house called for as aids to the marking of the linen and clothes.
A typical one is as follows: Lines of alphabets and numerals across the top, some large subjects in the centre, and designs for borders arranged in lines across the bottom.
The satin-stitch alphabets are worked in short flat stitches, not over padding, according to the modern method of initial embroidering, and the letters are generally square rather than curved in outline.
Alphabets and Numerals Although a sampler without either alphabets or numerals would seem to be lacking in the very essence of its being, it is almost certain that the earliest forms did not contain either, but (like that in Plate II.
Later on the monotony of alphabets and numerals was varied by the addition of the maker's name, the year, an old saw or two, and ultimately flights into moral or religious verse.
One of their main characteristics is to have elaborate alphabets worked in two or more colours.
There are several examples of each letter, and I have designed cases in which the alphabets may be kept.
In addition to these alphabets we have a set of the capital letters mounted in sandpaper upon cardboard, and another, in which they are cut from cardboard.
Scattered about upon a number of chairs, were the alphabets which we use in the school.
But so far is this from the truth, that admittedly no one knows whence the Phoenicians learned the characters, now alleged (by Gesenius first) to be the source from which modern alphabetswere directly derived.
NOTE This book is intended for those who have felt the need of a varied collection of alphabets of standard forms, arranged for convenient use.
The simple fact as regards Arab tribe-marks is, that they are letters of the old Arab alphabets of the Nejed and of Yemen.
In this series of alphabets we trace the same steady and gradual change which has differentiated all known alphabets in the world.
Giving a variety of very attractive alphabets suitable for engineering and architectural drawings.
A Pocketbook ofAlphabets for Engravers, Sign Writers and Stone Cutters, containing 32 pages of alphabets.
So the number of existing alphabets and syllabaries are but as a handful compared to those that have passed away and left no trace whatever.
Nations that once for long periods possessed writings are now completely unknown, and with them their alphabets also have perished, because no record of their existence was left on rock, brick, or pottery.
What looks, therefore, like an abundance of material by which to read the life of alphabets is really very little compared to what we ought to have.
With alphabets and numbers the abstract nature of visual representation took over the phonetic quality of language.
Experts in alphabets show us the levels at which the image of each letter constituted expressive levels significant in themselves.
The differences go well beyond how words sound, how alphabets differ, how letters are put together, or how sentences are structured in the various languages used around the world.
When spelling and phonetics are as inconsistent as they are in English especially, this suspicion led to the examination and creation of alternative alphabets and to alternative artificial languages, which we shall examine.
To the philologist an alphabet is not a thing in itself, but only a medium, and he knows many alphabets of all degrees of excellence.
Javal he found some alphabets harder to see than others and the letters of the same alphabet different in legibility.
As may be seen, by comparing the previous alphabets with the common alphabets of the Greek Grammar, the letters 6 and 19 occur in the earlier, whilst they are missing in the later, modes of writing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alphabets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
