WebGerman is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages.The Germanic languages are traditionally subdivided into three branches, North Germanic, East Germanic, and West Germanic.The first of these branches survives in modern Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic, all of which are …

WebOld High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally covering the period from around 750 to 1050.There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High German is an umbrella term for the group of continental West Germanic dialects which underwent the …

WebThe Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.It is also used informally in Israel to write Levantine …

WebThe Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-abjadīyah l-ʿarabīyah IPA: [ʔalʔabd͡ʒadijja lʕarabijja] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf l-ʿarabīyah), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing Arabic.It is written from right to left …

WebEtymology. Englisċ, from which the word English is derived, means 'pertaining to the Angles'. In Old English, this word was derived from Angles (one of the Germanic tribes who conquered parts of Great Britain in the 5th century). During the 9th century, all invading Germanic tribes were referred to as Englisċ.It has been hypothesised that the Angles …

WebEtymology. The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), was made from the first two letters, alpha (α) and beta (β). The names for the Greek letters came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet; aleph, which also meant ox, and bet, which …

WebThe Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite inscriptions from the region of biblical Israel and Judah.It is considered to be the script used to record the original texts of the Hebrew Bible due to its similarity to the Samaritan script, as the Talmud stated that …

WebThe modern Latin alphabet is used to write hundreds of different languages. Each language uses a slightly different set of letters, and they are pronounced in various ways. Some languages use the standard 26 letters, some use fewer, and others use more. This is the modern Latin alphabet as used to write English. Other versions of the Latin alphabet

WebCape Verdan Creole, Jacaltec, Malagasy, Ocaina, Old German, Old Hungarian N̋ n̋: N with double acute: Ň ň: N with caron: Czech, Slovak, Tarok, Turkmen, Wenzhounese Romanization System and other transliterations of Chinese dialects. N̐ n̐: N with chandrabindu: Sanskrit transliteration N̑ n̑: N with inverted breve: Glagolitic ...

WebA letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system.The inventory of all letters forms an alphabet.Letters broadly correspond to phonemes in the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent and exact correspondence between letters and phonemes.. The word letter, borrowed from Old French letre, entered Middle English …