Alphabet (disambiguation)

Alphabet (disambiguation)

An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
* Alphabets derived from the Latin
** Latin alphabet
** English alphabet
*Alphabet song, a mnemonic used for learning the Latin alphabet
*The Alphabet (song), one of the "Nonsense Madrigals" of György Ligeti
*"The Alphabet" (see The Short Films of David Lynch#The Alphabet), a 1968 short film by David Lynch
*"The Alphabet", may refer to a single poem by Ron Silliman, composed between 1979 and 2004

Other
*Alphabet (computer science), a finite set of characters or digits.
*International Phonetic Alphabet "(IPA)", a system of phonetic notation used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent the sounds used in spoken human language.
*NATO phonetic alphabet, a common name for the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, where letters are assigned names to make them readily understood by voice communication; often used by militaries, two-way radio operators, and airlines.
*Alpha-Bits, a breakfast cereal.


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