Writing system
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A writing system is any conventional system for representing a particular language using a set of symbols, as well as the rules those symbols encode. The earliest of conventional writing systems appea
Table of scripts in the introduction to the Sanskrit–English Dictionary by Monier Monier-Williams
A passage from the biblical Gospel of Luke printed using Balinese script
Diacritic
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A diacritic is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός, from διακρίνω. The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attrib
Hangul, the Korean syllabary
German keyboard with umlaut letters
Blackboard used in class at Harvard shows students' efforts at placing the ü and acute accent diacritic used in Spanish orthography.