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Orthography is a set of rules that determine the correct way of writing in a certain language, including norms about spelling, punctuation and word breaks. Orthography is usually not considered part of natural language or grammar itself and therefore not strictly a subject of linguistics, but sometimes of interest in investigating individual languages' pronunciation and writing systems.
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Why do some written languages have multiple symbols for a single sound?
For each language and each letter the story is different, but usually it's like this: when the script just appeared, those letters meant different sounds, but with the course of time those sounds conv …
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What language (if it is a language) is it?
It's Classical Arabic, the same text is written twice, at the top and at the bottom, both begin on the right side of the clock.
It is the same text which is written of the flag of Saudi Arabia.
The te …
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How can one fill out the quadrat when a word consists of a single uniliteral?
Surely it's very common to have just one symbol as a block, even if it's a flat one, just look at any Ancient Egyptian text, there are lots of such signs in practically every text, even a short one. F …
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Are the rules for comma placements universal?
No, they are not, every language has its own rules for comma placement.
For example, in Russian a comma is needed before 'что' (that) introducing subordinate clauses, but in English no comma is used …
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Are there languages where a change of character casing can lead to a different meaning of a ...
The Japanese Kana alphabets, Hiragana and Katakana, also have a similar distinction of their letters, big vs. small, but in Kana this distinction is used for quite a different purpose than marking the …
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Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row?
Russian has several words with triple letters:
длинношеее - 'having a long neck', also короткошеее - 'having a short neck'
змееед - 'snake-eater', the name of a bird
доооновский - 'pre-U …
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Why are there spelling inconsistencies in Spanish and Italian? What is the historical origin...
The question of optimizing orthography lies beyond the scope of linguistics, since linguistics studies the objective sides of the language, while orthography is purely subjective, it is just a convention …
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What is the orthography for each of these Khmer vowels?
Actually, there is no inconsistency in the two Wikipedia articles you gave the links to.
The vowels [ɑ], [ŭə], [ŏə], and [ĕə] are written with the help of a special diacritic sign called bântăk (a sm …
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Why does "Vacuum" have two "u's," and how is it pronounced?
The Latin vacuum is the nominative neuter singular form of the adjective vacuus 'empty'. Both words had and still have three syllables each, that is, both Us are pronounced as separate vowels, and yes …
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Transliteration of Cyrillic
The English sound 'i' as in 'ink' is closer to Ыы [ɨ], which is usually transliterated into the Latin alphabet as Yy. And don't forget, there's also a letter Її that you can use as you like, in realit …
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How do we know that Sumerian determinatives were not pronounced?
A good argument for determiners being silent can be this: names of different kinds of trees and names of wooden things were preceded by the determiner G̃IŠ (tree, wood, tool), for example:
G̃IŠ.nàd, …
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Any world languages having multiple-letter-based or single-ideogram-based syllables where th...
Since numeral symbols are ideograms, even English has such sequences, for example '666' is often pronounced as 'six-six-six'.
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Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?
In the Old Ethiopic language Ge'ez a double dot (:) was used to separate words. The Modern Amkharic language of Ethiopia also uses the double dot, although spaces are now used increasingly.
The Nasta …
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Is there a standardized graphical encoding for cuneiform?
I haven't heard about anything like that concerning cuneiform glyphs, but there's a very interesting paper, The Xixia Writing System (Bachelor of Arts Honours Thesis), 2008, by Alan Downes (downloadab …
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Are Mongolian "хан" and "хаан" the same word despite the usually important difference in vow...
There are two Khalkha Mongolian words, хан and хаан (according to the "Big Modern Russian-Mongolian and Mongolian-Russian Dictionary", by Yury Kruchkin, 2006, 115,000 entries, хан and хаан are mention …
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