abugida

Adapted by Peter T. Daniels from Ge'ez አቡጊዳ (ʾäbugida), the name of its own script, based on the Greek alphabet order (Α, Β, Γ, Δ).

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːbuˈɡiːdə/

abugida (plural abugidas)

1. (linguistics) A kind of syllabary in which a symbol or glyph representing an entire syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant. Symbols for different syllables are typically generated by adding, altering, or removing the vowel portion of the symbol, often in the form of diacritics applied to a stable consonant symbol.

Some languages that use abugidas are Amharic, Hindi, Burmese, Cree and Ojibwe (Canadian Aboriginal syllabics). See Omniglot's Syllabic Alphabets Page for reference and more examples of abugidas.

• alphasyllabary

• abugidic

• abjad
• alphabet
• syllabary
• Omniglot

abugida m (plural abugidas)

1. abugida

• alphasyllabaire

abugida m (plural abugidi)

1. abugida

• alfasillabario

abugida m (plural abugidas)

1. (linguistics) abugida (writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as a unit)