Writing Systems

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8 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Writing Systems.

• Ampersand — The logogram &, historically formed as a ligature of Latin et, that represents the conjunction 'and' under language-, typography-, naming-, and style-specific conventions.
• Canadian Aboriginal syllabics — A family of writing systems used by several Indigenous languages in Canada, built from sign shapes whose orientation or modification often encodes vowel value.
• Che (Persian letter) — A Persian-derived Arabic-script letter representing the voiceless postalveolar affricate and distinguished from jim by two additional dots.
• Diacritic — A mark added to a base letter or glyph to distinguish pronunciation, tone, stress, grammatical value or character identity.
• Ellipsis — A punctuation mark, usually three dots, indicating omitted material, an incomplete thought, a pause or trailing continuation according to context and style.
• Jurchen script — The partly deciphered writing system created for the Jurchen language in the Jin dynasty, derived chiefly from Khitan and ultimately Chinese graphic traditions.
• Logogram — A written sign that conventionally represents a word or morpheme primarily through lexical meaning rather than one sound segment.
• Ol Onal — An alphabetic writing system devised for the Bhumij language, with a distinct character inventory and community use in parts of eastern India.