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Definition of Alphabetic script
1. Noun. A writing system based on alphabetic characters.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alphabetic Script
Literary usage of Alphabetic script
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1901)
"Comparing these two uses,'it seems almost incredible that, if a simpler Phoenician
alphabetic script had at that time been known anywhere throughout the ..."
2. The Empire of the Amorites by Albert Tobias Clay (1919)
"Even in the time after it is assumed that they adopted an alphabetic script, we
ought to find evidences; for clay was an ever ready inexpensive writing ..."
3. The Old Testament and the New Scholarship by John Punnett Peters (1902)
"Then we begin to meet with inscriptions, in diverse places, in an alphabetic script.
What the origin of that alphabetic script was and when it was invented ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1896)
"While alphabetic script is absolute and categorie, pictorial script is but relative
and vaguely suggestive. In the former it is the author who carves the ..."
5. Bible and Spade: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the by John Punnett Peters (1922)
"... coast land of the Mediterranean, and it is nations immediately about that
region which we find first using the fully developed alphabetic script. ..."
6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1886)
"They found the native phonetic writing partly syllabic and partly alphabetic;
and it was easy for the priests to devise a wholly alphabetic script on the ..."
7. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"-For all that, he assumed that the Babylonian cuneiform also represented, like
the Persian variety, an alphabetic script, though with this modification, ..."
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