Meaning

2 senses
  1. 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.

    пи́сьменностьpísʹmennostʹ, письмо́pisʹmó

  2. (specifically)The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.

More definitions
  • a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

Examples

25 sentences
  1. Which writing system is the most difficult in the world?

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  2. How do you approach learning languages with different writing systems?

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  3. Do you have any strategies for learning languages with complex writing systems?

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  4. Many writing systems don't have any difference between upper case and lower case letters.

    ruВо многих системах письма нет различия между заглавными и строчными буквами.

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  5. Curacao uses a phonetic writing system.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
system for writing one or more languages:

Origin

From writing + system.

From writing + system.

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Forms

plural: writing systems
Singularwriting system
Pluralwriting systems

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
system for writing one or more languages:scriptA2
Close in meaning
  • a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols:orthography

See also

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