other symbols instead of Javanese characters. An abugida (/ˌɑːbuːˈɡiːdə, ˌæb-/ ; from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ, 'äbugīda) – sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary...

(Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of...

syllables or moras. (The 19th-century term syllabics usually referred to abugidas rather than true syllabaries.) Afaka – Ndyuka Alaska or Yugtun script –...

(Thai: อักษรไทย, RTGS: akson thai, pronounced [ʔàksɔ̌ːn tʰāj]) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand...

text. The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are used throughout the Indian subcontinent, Southeast...

vowels—from both abugidas and abjads, which only need letters for consonants. Abjads generally lack vowel indicators altogether, while abugidas represent them...

vowels, are represented among the basic graphemes. Abjads differ from abugidas, another category defined by Daniels, in that in abjads, the vowel sound...

reserve the general term for analytic syllabaries and invent other terms (abugida, abjad) as necessary. Some systems provide katakana language conversion...

script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia...

consonants, and pure alphabets having them for both consonants and vowels. In abugidas, graphemes correspond to spoken consonant–vowel pairs. Syllabaries use...