Letter (alphabet)  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Related e

Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop Featured: Rhombicuboctahedron by Leonardo da Vinci

Latin alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

A letter is a grapheme (written character) in an alphabetic system of writing, such as the Greek alphabet and its descendants. Letters compose phonemes and each phoneme represents a phone (sound) in the spoken form of the language. Letters also appear in abjads (alphabets with consonants only).

Written signs in other writing systems are best called syllabograms (which denote a syllable) or logograms (which denote a word or phrase).

See also

• Abecedarium
• Artificial script
• Character (computing)
• Collation
• Diacritic
• Digraph (orthography)
• Glyph
• Grapheme
• Greek letters used in mathematics
• History of the alphabet
• Letterform
• Ligature
• Orthography
• Roman letters used in mathematics
• Typeface
• Typography
• Unicode