writing system

English

Etymology

writing +‎ system

Noun

writing system (plural writing systems)

(linguistics) A system for writing one or more languages; a particular alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, or other scheme. For example, the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet.
(linguistics, specifically) The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.

Synonyms

(system for writing one or more languages) script

Translations

system for writing one or more languages

Chinese:
Mandarin: 書寫系統, 书写系统 (shūxiě xìtǒng), 文字 (zh) (wénzì)
Finnish: kirjoitusjärjestelmä (fi)

French: système d'écriture (fr) m, écriture (fr) f
Russian: please add this translation if you can

basic type of system for writing langauges

Chinese:
Mandarin: 書寫系統 (shūxiě xìtǒng), 文字 (zh) (wénzì)

Finnish: kirjoitusjärjestelmä (fi)
Russian: please add this translation if you can

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Translations to be checked

Catalan: sistema d'escriptura f
Esperanto: skribsistemo
Latin: systema scripturae
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can

Portuguese: sistema de escrita
Romanian: sistem de scriere
Spanish: sistema de escritura f

References

Florian Coulmas ed. (1999), sv “writing system” in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Blackwell Publishing (Blackwell Reference Online, accessed 2013-02-08).

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