orthography has definitions from the field of linguistics
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[ noun ] (linguistics) a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

Synonyms

writing_system

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(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)

The design of orthographies has received much less attention from linguists than the problem deserves .

There has been a tendency on the part of many American linguists to assume that a phonemic transcription will automatically be the best possible orthography and that the only real problem will then be the social one of securing acceptance .

Most others have been content to give only the most general attention to the broadest and most obvious features of the phonology when designing orthographies .

The result of this attitude has been the domination of many orthography conferences by such considerations as typographic ' esthetics ' , which usually turns_out to be nothing more than certain prejudices carried_over from European languages .

As a result , many people have been confirmed in their conviction that orthography design is not an activity to which experts can contribute anything but confusion .

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