#orthography__writing_system__writingsystem  a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
  supertype:  #writing.symbols  letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"
  instance:  #Linear_A
  member:  #punctuation  #hyphenation
  part:  #word_division  #punctuation_mark
  subtype:  #script  a particular orthography or writing system
     subtype:  #Arabic_script__Arabic  an alphabetic script used to write the Arabic dialects (and borrowed to write Urdu)
     subtype:  #Avestan  the script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written
     subtype:  #uncial  a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries
  subtype:  #Armenian_alphabet__Armenian  a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written
  subtype:  #spelling  forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
     subtype:  #misspelling  a spelling that is incorrect
  subtype:  #picture_writing__picturewriting  a writing system using pictographs
  subtype:  #alphabetic_writing__alphabetic_script  a writing system based on alphabetic characters
  subtype:  #boustrophedon  an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally "as the ox ploughs"
  subtype:  #cuneiform  an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
     subtype:  #Babylonian.cuneiform__babylonian  the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
  subtype:  #syllabary__syllabic_script  a writing system whose characters represent syllables
     subtype:  #Devanagari_script__Devanagari__Nagari__Nagari_script  a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
     instance:  #Linear_B
  subtype:  #ideography  the use of ideograms in writing
  subtype:  #hieroglyph__hieroglyphic  a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
     subtype:  #hieratic_script__hieratic  a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
  subtype:  #point_system.orthography__pointsystem  a system of writing or printing using patterns of raised dots that can be read by touch
     subtype:  #Braille  a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals

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