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| | Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Proponents of this theory hold that the development of alphabetic (as distinct to other types of) writing systems has made a significant impact on "Western" thinking and development because it introduced a new level of abstraction, analysis, and classification. | | | However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. | | | Conversely, the vowel marks of the Amharic abugida have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
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| | Art21 - The Alphabet Synthesis Machine (Introduction) |
| | The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is comprised of two software systems: an interactive client-side applet, which allows users to create and evolve their abstract letterforms, and a server-side archiving system which stores the user creations as downloadable TrueType fonts. | | | Précis: The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one's own imaginary civilizations. | | | Whereas the ASM uses a physical simulation in tandem with an evolution algorithm to produce "handwritten" forms, Matt Chisholm's "Alphabet Soup" project uses a shape grammar based on the structure of the Roman/Cyrillic/Greek/IPA alphabets in order to synthesize novel "punch-cut" glyphs. |
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http://alphabet.tmema.org
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| | Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As a result, the Arabic alphabet is used to write many other languages — even languages belonging to language families other than Semitic. | | | Former uses of the alphabet for other languages | | | Declan Software's Arabic alphabet learning software with audio and animations |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet
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| | ALPHABET |
| | One approach is in terms of the practical problems faced by the originator of the alphabet: another would examine the archaeological record; a third might focus on the perceptual process by which the alphabet makes rapid reading possible. | | | The question is whether alphabetic writing in its original or any of its traditional forms was in fact designed to function as a system of 'visible speech'... | | | The object of an alphabet being to represent to the eye the sounds of a language by means of written symbols, it follows that in a rational alphabet - |
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http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/alphabet.htm
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| | Alphabet Prints |
| | Alphabet - N is for Net - Pastel Blue - 6x8 | | | Alphabet - M is for Monkey - Pastel Pink - 6x8 | | | Alphabet - Z is for Zebra - Pastel Blue - 6x8 |
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http://store.sallyhuss.com/alphabetprints.html
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| | alphabet |
| | Note: An alphabet may be as simple as the booleans 1 and 0, or as rich as the key words and token types in a programming language. | | | For instance, input characters used by a finite state machine, letters making up strings in a language, or symbols in a pattern element. | | | Paul E. Black, "alphabet", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed., U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. |
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http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/alphabet.html
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| | Phoenician Alphabet |
| | Windows users need to use WINZIP to uncompress the zipped font files or use the Installer. | | | The simple reason for that was the fact that there were no other efficient writing systems other than Phoenician at that time. | | | Paste the URL/Address in the link that comes up and follow the instructions for the related site. |
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http://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
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| | The Alphabet of Art |
| | Once you understand the Alphabet, you'll be able to "read" pictures and other works of visual art and understand why they work the way they do. | | | In any notation system there must be a method of making comparisons. | | | The Alphabet of Art — A Notation System for Visual Design |
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http://www.guidancecom.com/alphabet
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| | Development of the Alphabet |
| | Pictographic acrophonic alphabets are language specific and have to be rebuilt for every new language. | | | In other words, those who developed the first alphabets and syllabaries constrained themselves in two ways. | | | B.C. The Semites did not invent any totally new sound categories with the possible exception of /z/. |
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http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/alfabet-abbr.html
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| | Shaw Alphabet Links |
| | Kingsley Read rapidly moved beyond the Shaw Alphabet to develop Quickscript, an extensive modification of the Shaw Alphabet which languished in even greater obscurity than did the Shaw Alphabet itself. | | | The Shaw Alphabet font was designed by Kingsley Read in England in the early 1960's. | | | In 1988 I designed what was almost certainly the first computer Shaw Alphabet font, GBShaw, a bit-mapped Macintosh font which is now of only historical interest. |
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http://members.aol.com/RSRICHMOND/shavian.html
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| | Kindergarten Resources for Alphabet Recognition |
| | Alphabet Match - Match capital to small letter. | | | As matches are made they are reinforced on a chalkboard, writing down the matches so the student can go back and read the matches later. | | | Memory Match - Click on the Letter A on the couch. |
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http://www.internet4classrooms.com/kplus_alpha.htm
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| | Alphabet - MSN Encarta |
| | Syllabic writing systems are also more difficult to learn than alphabets, because they have so many more symbols. | | | If English used the system of a picture to represent the first sound of a word, we might write the word sat by drawing sun + apple + table. | | | Such a word-based system becomes an alphabet (single-sound based system) or syllabary (sound-group based system) when pictographs or ideographs are used to represent a spoken sound without an associated meaning. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565349/Alphabet.html
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| | Web Diner's Alphabets and Icons for Web Pages |
| | Browse our Deco alphabets - there are 15 altogether, so you can mix and match. | | | Windows users can unzip these files using WinZip, and Mac users can use Zipit. | | | You can find out how to use these graphics by browsing our tutorial. |
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http://www.webdiner.com/alpha/alpha.htm
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| | Phoenician Alphabet Essay @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power) |
| | The Greek alphabet developed from the Phoenician alphabet. | | | Find More Information about "Phoenician alphabet" in HigherPower.org's: | | | The Samaritan alphabet, used by the Samaritans, is a version of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. |
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http://higherpower.org/encyclopedia/Phoenician_alphabet
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| | alphabet. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | An exotic modern system is the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah, suggested by, but not based on, the Roman alphabet. | | | A similar development created the Persian cuneiform syllabary. | | | The most important writing of India is the Devanagari, an alphabet with syllabic features; this, invented probably for Sanskrit, is the source of a number of Asian scripts. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/al/alphabet.html
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| | Amazon.com: Alphabet: Software |
| | Unlike some other software, Alphabet engages all senses and makes the PROCESS of learning enjoyable. | | | This is a highly creative program, which obviously is not for everyone. | | | Alphabet is a rich sensory experience--don't expect detailed instructions, games with goals, or even lessons in this land of letters. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056WJY
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| | Omniglot - writing systems and languages of the world |
| | Abjads, Alphabets, Syllabic alphabets, Syllabaries, Complex, Undeciphered, Alternative, Constructed, A-Z index, Direction index, Language index |
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http://www.omniglot.com
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| | Alphabet Synthesis Machine Font Archive |
| | The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an online artwork which allows visitors to create and evolve personalized "nonsense alphabets"—coherent sets of abstract forms which might resemble the plausible writing systems of imaginary civilizations or unfamiliar societies. | | | The thumbnails below link to the corresponding TrueType fonts generated by the Alphabet Synthesis Machine. | | | The following alphabets were created by visitors to the site during a two-month period, and represent a selection from the nearly 300 writing systems produced during this time. |
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http://alphabet.tmema.org/examples
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| | Alphabet |
| | The Alphabet by Enchanted Learning - A is for... | | | Sign Language Alphabet - A-Z in sign language | | | This page may contain links to outside sites which are educational or child-oriented, but not on a FCPS school server. |
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http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/abc
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| | Latin alphabet - definition of Latin alphabet in Encyclopedia |
| | For multilingual situations with no one preferred language or alphabet, the Unicode Collation Algorithm can be used. | | | The Latin alphabet is also used for many Austronesian languages, including Tagalog and the other languages of the Philippines, and the official Malaysian and Indonesian languages, replacing earlier Arabic and indigenous Brahmic alphabets. | | | Furthermore, the Faroese alphabet uses the eth, which follows the D. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Latin_alphabet
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| | Preschool Alphabet Ideas |
| | I use them in my pre-k class all the time. | | | I especially love the alphabet ideas I haven't found anything else that can even compare -- Julie, 3 Year Old Teacher | | | I use the alphabet section every year to help teach my threes and fours their alphabet. |
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http://www.everythingpreschool.com/alphabet
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| | Discovery of Egyptian Inscriptions Indicates an Earlier Date for Origin of the Alphabet |
| | He surmised that scribes in the troops of mercenaries probably developed the simplified writing along the lines of a semicursive form of Egyptian commonly used in the Middle Kingdom in graffiti. | | | Alphabetic writing emerged as a kind of shorthand by which fewer than 30 symbols, each one representing a single sound, could be combined to form words for a wide variety of ideas and things. | | | The only words in the inscriptions the researchers think they understand are, reading right to left, the title for a chief in the beginning and a reference to a god at the end. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/alphorg.htm
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| | Judaism 101: Hebrew Alphabet |
| | Davka also has a lot of fonts available, as well as a lot of other Hebrew and Judaic software. | | | The Hebrew and Yiddish languages use a different alphabet than English. | | | Transliteration is more an art than a science, and opinions on the correct way to transliterate words vary widely. |
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http://www.jewfaq.org/alephbet.htm
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| | Alphabet Games, Phonics Lessons for Children - Itchy's Alphabet for Kids |
| | Children love Itchy — it truly is a ‘kids alphabet program’! | | | It is a systematic, multi-sensory phonics program with features such as an alphabet songs CD, alphabet games on cards, phonics games on CD, alphabet stickers, reproducible blackline masters, printing practice, automaticity drills, b —d reversal packages, vowel characters, alphabet wall cards and an alphabet book. | | | Itchy’s Alphabet is a primary phonics program designed to teach children alphabet skills, specifically focussing on letter sounds and lower case letter formations. |
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http://www.itchysalphabet.com
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| | Butterfly Posters, Books, Prints & Gifts |
| | Read what people are saying about the Butterfly and Nature Alphabet! | | | For over 24 years the Smithsonian naturalist, lecturer and photographer, Kjell ("Shell") Sandved traveled the world over, photographing all the letters and numbers from the wings of butterflies without harming any. | | | See other creative uses for advertising and fundraising. |
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http://www.butterflyalphabet.com
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| | Alphabet |
| | Alphabet Theme-a-saurus: The Great Big Book of Letter Recognition | | | Q is for Duck: An Alphabet Guessing Game | | | I did the activity towards the end of the year so it was easy for the children to write the letters on their own. |
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http://www.abc123kindergarten.com/Units/alphabet.html
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| | Arabic2000.Com - The Arabic Alphabet |
| | This page is a modified version of a screenshot from The Arabic Tutor software. | | | Letters whose names appear in blue are those which can't be joined on the left side. | | | A number of our vistors asked about Arabic numerals (Arabic numbers). |
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http://www.arabic2000.com/arabic/alphabet.html
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| | French Alphabet - L'Alphabet français |
| | Sign up for my free, weekly French for Beginners email course to learn basic French grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. | | | About>Education>French Language> Learn French> Schools and Education> Literacy> French Alphabet - L'Alphabet français | | | This free website Term of the week: voice / la voix Learn or review a different term from my French grammar Easy French Poetry Podcast Easy French Poetry Podcast is a French conversation podcast about Gesture of the week: Victoire Are you familiar with the use and variations of this |
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http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl_alphabet.htm
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| | Billy Bear's Alphabet Game |
| | By playing this game, it will put the graphics into your "cache" directory making the other games play faster for you. | | | JavaScript game requires Netscape 3.0 or higher to play. | | | This is a warm up for the other alphabet lessons. |
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http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/online/alphabet/abc.htm
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| | Learning Planet Parent/Teacher Page |
| | Next, you'll see Offline Alphabet Activities like coloring pages to print for each letter and abc games to play away from your computer. | | | Alphabet Action is a LearningPlanet.com game that helps children begin recognizing letter names in an entertaining and interactive way. | | | Magnetic Alphabet These are great for practicing letter recognition and a fun hands-on way to learn the letter names and sounds. |
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http://www.learningplanet.com/parents/mom/alphabet/alphabet.htm
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| | Welcome to Play Kids Games.com - online kids games, alphabet games, math games, letter games, addition games, ... |
| | Welcome to Play Kids Games.com - online kids games, alphabet games, math games, letter games, addition games, subraction games, K12, education, multiplication games, division games, letter, alphabet, spelling, learning games, educational games, word, java games, applets, children, kids, child games, child, spelling, games, alphabet,baby, kids.com, learning, www.play, kids games to play, games to play | | | Click here to be notified of new games. | | | His sticky toung will do all the work. |
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http://www.playkidsgames.com/alphabetGames.htm
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| | Alphabet - Uncyclopedia |
| | The modern term alphabet has its origin in Las Vegas, and was originally used in 1903 to classify all initial bets placed in a game, as follows: | | | The term was later adapted for use in the dangerous game of Ultimate Truths and Dares; someone might alphabet you can’t slam your hand in a car door, for example. | | | Consonants were designed by MacGyver in 1988, during an episode of the epinymious TV show. |
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
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| | Armenian Alphabet - Armeniapedia.org |
| | The transliteration system I use is very simple, based on the Latin character equivalents assigned to each letter in the alphabet above. | | | Dates are generally marked by the letters ԹՎ or the like, often with a line over, indicating "t'vin" ("in the year") followed by one to four letters, each of which stands for a number based on its order in the alphabet. | | | This is because the Armenian alphabet contains a few "middle sounds" which English has for the most part lost. |
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http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Alphabet
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| | Ancient Scripts: Greek |
| | The alphabet, on the other hand, allowed more precise record of the sounds in the language. | | | The Greek alphabet was also the basis for Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Coptic, Gothic scripts among others. | | | While there are many differences between the many variants of the early Greek alphabet, enough similarities exist to suggest the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet once and splintered rapidly into local variants rather than adopting multiple times. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html
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| | The Origin of the Alphabet |
| | The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt.* They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols. | | | The Greeks had a second version -- upsilon (Υ)-- which they moved to to the back of their alphabet. | | | They developed a variation of it for omega (Ω, "big O"), and put it at the end of their alphabet. |
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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/alphabet.html
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| | Learn Tibetan |
| | The Tibetan alphabet was created also with the idea for using it to write Sanskrit words. | | | If you see any examples such as these in transcribed Tibetan, the letters are written in a stack instead of next to eachother. | | | Now that you know the basic workings of the alphabet, you can start looking at how words are put together. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/tibet.html
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| | Letter and Alphabet Activities at EnchantedLearning.com |
| | Dolch words are the most commonly-used words in children's books, and words that all children should learn to read and write early on. | | | A set of worksheets, one for each letter of the alphabet, in which the student labels 10 words that start with a particular letter. | | | The student writes and draws pictures of eight words that start with each of the letters. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/abc.shtml
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| | The Alphabet (1968) |
| | Also, The Alphabet hints at what linguists and intellectuals and songwriters have known for centuries; words are wholly inadequate to describe even the simplest of human perceptions. | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Alphabet (1968) | | | And once one has etched that list of letters into one's mind, in a sense, there is no turning back. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062653
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| | Ancient and modern Latin alphabet |
| | Other letters were added from time to time as the Latin alphabet was adapted for other languages and many letters had several different shapes. | | | The letters J, U and W were added to the alphabet at a later stage to write languages other than Latin. | | | Many languages add a variety of accents to the basic letters, and a few also use extra letters and ligatures. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/latin.htm
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| | Russian Alphabet - with sound |
| | The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters, 11 vowels, 20 consonants and 2 letters which do not have a sound (instead they make the word harder or softer). | | | Also hand written Russian looks different to printed Russian. |
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http://www.languagehelpers.com/Russian/TheRussianAlphabet.html
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| | Alphabet (ABC's) Theme |
| | Sign Language to find links to ASL (American Sign Language). | | | Have them write the letters of the alphabet, place stickers on it, or make some letters for them to put on their tree. | | | If you want, you can make a letter book (especially for preschoolers). |
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http://www.fastq.com/~jbpratt/education/theme/alphabet/letter/letters.html
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| | Technorati Tag: alphabet |
| | Questia, Online Library - Alphabet Research and discover over 1,000,000 books, journals and articles covering over 6,000 research topics, continuously updated - a complete academic library. | | | Alphabet Materials from Reading A-Z Instant access to hundreds of downloadable and printable resources to teach the alphabet and other reading strategies. | | | To contribute to this page, just post to your blog and include this code. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/alphabet
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| | Deseret alphabet |
| | The Deseret alphabet was devised as an alternative to the Latin alphabet for writing the English language. | | | Blissymbolics, Deseret, Graffiti, Interbet, Quikscript/Read Alphabet, Shavian, Shorthand, Solresol | | | Brigham Young's secretary, George D. Watt, was among the designers of the Deseret alphabet and is thought to have used the Pitman English Phonotypic Alphabet of 1847 as the model. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/deseret.htm
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