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acrophonic
acrophonic, a. (ækrəʊˈfɒnɪk) [f. acrophony + -ic.] Pertaining to acrophony.1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Jan. 13/1 The Hittite pictographic script which he thought was acrophonic. 1959 A. G. Woodhead Gr. Inscriptions 18 The Greek names for the letters of the alphabet are acroph... Oxford English Dictionary
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Acrophony
For example, Greek letter names are acrophonic: the names of the letters α, β, γ, δ, are spelled with the respective letters: (alpha), (beta), (gamma The paradigm for acrophonic alphabets is the Proto-Sinaitic script and the succeeding Phoenician alphabet, in which the letter A, representing the sound wikipedia.org
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Alphabetum
Sidetic) Avestan Brahmi Celtiberian Coptic (Bohairic) Cypriot Old Cyrillic Old English Middle English Glagolitic Gothic Ancient Greek Ancient Greek acrophonic wikipedia.org
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pictograph
pictograph (ˈpɪktəgrɑːf, -æ-) [mod. f. L. pict-us painted + -graph.] a. A pictorial symbol or sign; a writing or record consisting of pictorial symbols (the most primitive form of records). Also attrib.1851 Schoolcraft Ind. Tribes I. 416 Plate 60 Pictograph A. Chippewa Petition to the President of t... Oxford English Dictionary
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Stigma (ligature)
Stigma was co-opted as a name specifically for the στ sign, evidently because of the acrophonic value of its initial st- as well as the analogy with the wikipedia.org
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Ancient Greek Numbers (Unicode block)
Ancient Greek Numbers is a Unicode block containing acrophonic numerals used in ancient Greece, including ligatures and special symbols. wikipedia.org
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History of the alphabet
Since the start of the name of a letter was expected to be the sound of the letter (the acrophonic principle), in Greek these letters came to be used for (The names of the Santali letters are related to the sound they represent through the acrophonic principle, as in the original alphabet, but it is the wikipedia.org
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History of the Greek alphabet
Phoenician hē had been used as a mater lectionis for both and in addition to , but in Greek it was restricted to , following the acrophonic principle All Phoenician letters had been acrophonic, and they remained so in Greek. wikipedia.org
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Beta
Name Like the names of most other Greek letters, the name of beta was adopted from the acrophonic name of the corresponding letter in Phoenician, which wikipedia.org
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Ligature (writing)
Among the ancient Greek acrophonic numerals, ligatures were common (in fact, the ligature of a short-legged capital pi was a key feature of the acrophonic wikipedia.org
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Archaic Greek alphabets
in the archaic period, was instead used to denote the long vowel , which occurred next in its name and was thus, in the -less dialects, its natural acrophonic wikipedia.org
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Afaka syllabary
Etymology The origins of many of the letters are obscure, though several appear to be acrophonic rebuses, with many of these being symbols from Africa. wikipedia.org
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Attic numerals
They were also known as Herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd-century manuscript by Herodian; or as acrophonic numerals (from wikipedia.org
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Greek numerals
They were acrophonic, derived (after the initial one) from the first letters of the names of the numbers represented. See also (acrophonic, not alphabetic, numerals) , based on the Greek system References External links The Greek Number Converter Numeral wikipedia.org
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Numerals in Unicode
They are also known as acrophonic numerals because all of the symbols used derive from the first letters of the words that the symbols represent: 'one' wikipedia.org
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