Abugida

//ˌɑː.buˈɡiː.də//

Synonyms for "abugida" (2 found)

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Translations

25 translations across 22 languages.

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Abkhaz

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  • азбугида noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Arabic

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  • أَبُوجِيدَا noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Dutch

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  • abugida noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Esperanto

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  • abugido noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Finnish

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  • abugida noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

French

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  • abugida noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)
  • alphasyllabaire noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Ge'ez

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  • አቡጊዳ noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

German

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  • Abugida noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Hebrew

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  • אבוגידה noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Hindi

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  • आबूगीदा noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Indonesian

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  • abugida noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)
  • alfasilabis noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Italian

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  • abugida noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)
  • alfasillabario noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Japanese

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  • アブギダ noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Khmer

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  • អាប៊ុហ៊្គីដា noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Korean

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  • 아부기다 noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Persian

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  • ابوگیدا noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Portuguese

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  • abugida noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Punjabi

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  • ਆਬੂਗੀਦਾ noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Russian

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  • абуги́да noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Tamil

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  • அபுகிடா noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Thai

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  • อักษรสระประกอบ noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

Urdu

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  • ابوگیدا noun (writing system — see also alphasyllabary)

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In addition, devanagari is an abugida, used for Sanskrit, Nepali and Hindi, in which the characters contain a final 'a'-sound if another vowel does not change the sound. However, Arabic and Hebrew use separate systems called abjads, in which the vowels are not always indicated.

Source: tatoeba (5172763)

Like most Indian scripts, the Dogri script was an abugida.

Source: tatoeba (8689307)

Words are entered under the Abugida system.

Source: wiktionary

1997 [Routledge], Peter T. Daniels, 2: Scripts of Semitic Languages, Robert Hetzron (editor), The Semitic Languages, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2005, Transferred to Digital Printing, unnumbered page, An abugida is a script that uses characters for CV syllables wherein the several characters for some consonant plus the language's array of vowels are modifications of the character for that consonant followed by the unmarked vowel (phonemically /a/).

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