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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

communication go
something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups

black and white, written communication, written language go
communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)

writing go
letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language

orthography, writing system go
a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

script go
a particular orthography or writing system

alphabet
a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

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8 Subcategories

Armenian, Armenian alphabet go
a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written
Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet go
the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script go
a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
Greek alphabet go
the alphabet used by ancient Greeks
Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic go
an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)
Arabic alphabet go
the alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu)
phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet go
an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
manual alphabet, finger alphabet go
an alphabet used by the deaf