Alphabet

Works on the process or result of recording language in the form of conventionalized visible marks or graphic signs on a surface are entered under Writing. Works on the writing of a particular language are entered under the name of the language with subdivisions Alphabet and Writing, e.g. Greek language -- Alphabet; Egyptian language -- Writing. Works on systems of writing used by several peoples are entered under Writing, followed by the name of the system, e.g. Writing, Arabic.

Here are entered general and comparative works dealing with the Semitic alphabet and its ancient and modern derivatives, or with similar series of characters employed to represent the sounds of a language.

Works on variations in the style of writing in the past, and especially with ancient and medieval handwriting, are entered under Paleography.

Works on written languages as a form of communication or discourse are entered under Written communication.

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• Hieroglyphics
• Transliteration

• Alphabet -- Data processing
• Alphabet -- Folklore
• Alphabet -- Juvenile literature
• Alphabets
• Arabic alphabet
• Grantha alphabet
• Transliteration
• Cherokee language -- Alphabet
• English language -- Alphabet
• Oriya language -- Alphabet
• Sanskrit language -- Alphabet
• Telugu language -- Alphabet

• Letters of the alphabet
• Latin alphabet
• Roman alphabet

• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, by Unicode Consortium (HTML at unicode.org)

• A, Apple Pie, by Kate Greenaway (page images and HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Absurd ABC (London and New York: John Lane, c1874), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Comic Animals and their Adventures; With Alphabet and Rhymes (ca. 1880), illust. by George H. Thompson and Louis Wain (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Footsteps on the Road to Learning: or, The Alphabet in Rhyme (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)

• Baseball A B C (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1885) (page images at lov.gov)

• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (page images at iampeth.com)
• Collection of Penmanship (1921), by C. C. Canan (page images at iampeth.com)
• La Operina (in Italian, with English translation and commentary), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, ed. by Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (zipped PDF at operina.com)
• The New Zanerian Alphabets: An Instructor in Roundhand, Engrossing, Designing, Etc. (Columbus, OH: Zaner and Bloser, c1900), by C. P. Zaner (page images at iampeth.com)
• Studies in Pen Art (1914), by William Edward Dennis (page images at iampeth.com)

• Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (ca. 1879), by Ella Cheever Thayer (Gutenberg text)

• A Compendium of Aljamiado Literature (New York; Paris: Protat, 1929), ed. by A. R. Nykl (page images in Austria)
• Discursos Leidos Ante la Real Academia Española en la Recepcion Pública (in Spanish; Madrid: Impr. de la Compañia de Impresores y Libreros, 1878), by Eduardo Saavedra, contrib. by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Primer in Grantha Characters (St. Peter, MN: James H. Nye, 1983), by K. Venugopalan (page images at Chicago)

• Se-quo-yah, the American Cadmus and Modern Moses (Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association, 1885), by Geo. E. Foster (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Primer in Oriya Characters (1985), by P. C. Mishra (page images at Chicago)

• A Primer in Grantha Characters (St. Peter, MN: James H. Nye, 1983), by K. Venugopalan (page images at Chicago)

• A Primer in Telugu Characters (New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1991), by Edward C. Hill (page images at Chicago)

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