acrophonic
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acrophonic — ac·ro·phon·ic … English syllables
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acrophony — acrophonic /ak reuh fon ik/, acrophonetic /ak reuh feuh net ik/, adj. acrophonically, acrophonetically, adv. /euh krof euh nee/, n., pl. acrophonies. 1. the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the… … Universalium
Greek numerals — Numeral systems by culture Hindu Arabic numerals Western Arabic (Hindu numerals) Eastern Arabic Indian family Tamil Burmese Khmer Lao Mongolian Thai East Asian numerals Chinese Japanese Suzhou Korean Vietnamese … Wikipedia
Acrophony — (Greek: acro uppermost, head + phonos sound) is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system so that a letter s name begins with the letter itself. For instance, apple, aardvark, and alpha are acrophonic names for the English letter A… … Wikipedia
History of the alphabet — The history of the alphabet begins in Ancient Egypt, more than a millennium into the history of writing. The first pure alphabet emerged around 2000 BCE to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt (see Middle Bronze Age alphabets), and… … Wikipedia
History of the Greek alphabet — The History of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms and continues to the present day. This article concentrates on the early period, before the codification of the now standard Greek alphabet. The Phoenician… … Wikipedia
Digamma — This article is about the Greek letter. For the mathematical function, see digamma function. Greek alphabet … Wikipedia
Attic numerals — were used by the ancient Greeks, possibly from the 7th century BC. They were also known as Herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd century manuscript by Herodian. They are also known as acrophonic numerals because the… … Wikipedia
Proto-Canaanite alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Proto Canaanite alphabet type=Abjad languages= Canaanite languages time=ca. 1400 BC to 1050 BC fam1=Egyptian hieroglyphs fam2=Proto Sinaitic children=Phoenician alphabet Paleo Hebrew alphabet Aramaic alphabet Greek… … Wikipedia
