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Noun Concept
Categories: Arabic orthography, Articles with short description, Abjad writing systems
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abjad  Abgad  Abjadi  Abjadic  abjads
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An abjad is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader. Wikipedia
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An abjad is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader. Wikipedia
Type of writing system where each symbol stands for a consonant Wikidata
A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified. Wiktionary
Writing system. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
phonetic writing system
segmental writing system
PART OF
segmental writing system
HAS KIND
Pahlavi
HAS INSTANCE
Arabic alphabet
Aramaic
Hebrew alphabet
Pahlavi
Mandaic alphabet
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DIFFERENT FROM
syllabary
abugida
USES
consonantal alphabet
Wikipedia
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abjad
Wikidata
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abjad
Wiktionary
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abjad
Wikipedia Redirections
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Abgad, Abjadi, Abjadic, abjads, ABJD, consonantal alphabet, consonantary, impure abjad, Impure abjads, Semitic abjads
Wikidata Alias
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consonantal alphabet, consonantal writing, consonantary

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