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 Used in print (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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