单词 | abugida |
释义 | abugidan. Linguistics. 1. In Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya: a system for arranging characters or words in a particular sequence, following the sequence used in Semitic-language alphabets.See note in etymology. ΚΠ 1961 University Coll. (Addis Ababa) Rev. 1 140/1 Words [in the dictionary of Ge'ez reviewed in this article] are entered under the Abugida system. 1995 W. Leslau Ref. Gram. Amharic 1 The students in church schools use the order of the Hebrew alphabet known as..abugida representing the letters alef, bet, gimel, dalet. 2. A writing system in which a character typically represents a consonant pronounced with a standard vowel sound, and is modified by diacritics to indicate variant sounds.Used primarily for South Asian or South-East Asian languages.Chiefly in and after the work of Peter T. Daniels: see the etymology. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > others hydrographya1657 hierography1731 pasigraphy1796 scoteography1804 scriptio continua1845 grass hand1850 palaeotype1867 pneumatography1876 pasigraphic1947 abugida1990 1990 P. T. Daniels in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 110 730/2 I would propose..calling this type [of script] an ‘abugida’, from the Ethiopian word for the auxiliary order of consonants. 1996 P. T. Daniels in P. T. Daniels & W. Bright World's Writing Syst. ii. 27 The abugida really is more appropriate to Ethiopic languages than an alphabet would be, since the spelling ensures that each root looks the same through its plethora of inflections and derivations. 2016 R. Helms-Park et al. in X. Chen et al. Reading in Second Lang. i. 11 Presently, there are four geographic areas where abugidas are widespread: the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Canada. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1961 |
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