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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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Were يانيه and یانیه interchangeable in Ottoman Turkish?
From what I know, Ottoman Turkish normally used ی which had the two dots when connected on the left and when connected on both sides, but when connected only on the right (at the end of the word) it u …
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Why does the pronoun and verb order vary in Polish language?
The Polish pronouns ja (“I”), ty (“you singular, thou”), on (“he”), ono (“it”) have two sets of forms in the Genitive, Dative, and Accusative cases: a full form and a clitic form. The clitic form has …
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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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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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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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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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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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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 is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?
WARNING: The question is sooo many-sided, it is very wide and can be split into at least 3 different questions. I'll answer it all, don't tell me later that you haven't been warned the answer would be …
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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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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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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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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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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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