Example sentences for: alphabets

How can you use “alphabets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Interest in writing systems was dormant for many years: some thirty years ago, the only—and best-known— scholar working with alphabets was Dr. David Diringer.

  • Anyone who has fumingly, frustratedly tolerated the confusions, inaccuracies, incompletenesses, illiteracies, and genera; inabilities of manual-writers to describe the accompanying programs will be relieved and delighted to encounter the simple, straightforward presentation of information in this book, which is an essential for any individual, company, or educational institution that has occasion to deal with foreign languages and their alphabets.

  • A count of the languages spoken all over India, leaving out the dialects, comes to 1,652, written in 13 different alphabets.

  • But since different individuals have different ideas about how the Devanagari and Arabic alphabets should be transliterated, in many cases there is no single “correct” way to spell a specific word and, instead, dictionaries offer several--sometimes as many as six--acceptable variant spellings.

  • \, \?\), 3. ligatures (œ, æ, β, &), 4. digraphs (ch, sz), 5. numbers and modified numbers, 6. punctuation marks and other non-alphabetic characters (!, #, '), 7. letters from non-Roman alphabets (þ, \?\).


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