Spelling-book

A spelling-book is a whole of symbols used to represent the sounds of a Langue. The symbols represent Syllabes, unlike a Alphabet where the symbols represent sounds or Phonème S.

In the absolute, in a spelling-book, phonetically close characters (like “ka”, “ke” or “KB”) do not have a graphics similar - with the difference of a Alphasyllabaire where a common base consonnantale is typically faded to represent the vowel.

The spelling-books are particularly adapted to the languages using primarily syllables of the type Consonne - Voyelle, which limits the number of combinations. For languages using of the more complex structures spelling-books (like the French or the English), to use a spelling-book would undoubtedly appear not very practical.

Japanese constitutes a particular case among the languages of written tradition. Indeed, its writing requires the recourse to three written forms: - the Chinese writing of semantic type; - two phonological systems of Japanese kana, hiragana and katakana, which transcribes the connected speech on the level about the more, or foot, unit of intermediate articulation length between the syllable and the phoneme.

List related spelling-books and systems

the spelling-book suméro - Akkadien, also used by many languages of the ancient Middle East.
systems moraïques of kanas Japanese kana S (Hiragana and Katakana).
Several Amerindian Langues has a spelling-book, like the cherokee, the blackfoot, or the cries.
the Spelling-book yi, allowing to write to the Us, a variety of language Tibéto-Burmese E spoken with the Sichuan, in China, standardized since 1979.
Several nigéro-Congolese Langues used a spelling-book, like the kpelle one, the loma or the mende. Except for vai, all use from now on the Latin alphabet.
the Nüshu , which was exclusively used by the Femme S of the Comté of Jiangyong, in the province of the Hunan in China, and whose last user died in 2004.
the Linear B, in the past used for the writing of the Mycénien, an antiquated form of the old Greek .
the Canadian Syllabaires autochtones (used by the Inupiaq, the Inuktun, the Inuktitut and the Kalaallisut) can also be regarded as alphasyllabaires, the characters used to note close sounds being similar.

Note : The Languages of India and the Amharique use alphasyllabaires.

External bond

'' Syllabaries '', on the site Omniglot , which presents a list of spelling-books

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