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Additionally, syllabaries (like the kana) are not alphabets.

• CobrastanJorji 1y ago
  You are technically correct! Alphabets (ABC) are for phonemes, syllabaries are for syllables (hiragana, Cherokee), logograms are for words (chinese characters). Of course, some writing systems are very much hybrids (like Chinese, or hieroglyphics, or even the humble ampersand).
  • DemocracyFTW2 1y ago
    To be sure, 'logogram' is an even worse word than 'ideograph' for what the Chinese writing system is.
• thaumasiotes 1y ago
  Nonsense. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alphabet https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alphabet > al·pha·bet > a set of letters or other characters with which one or more languages are written especially if arranged in a customary order And then it shows an Alphabet Table beginning with Hebrew and Arabic.
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