Example sentences for: cenemic

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

  • In his description of writing systems Coulmas adopts the designations applied by W. Haas, namely, pleremic to describe the lexemic/morphemic level and cenemic to describe the syllabic/ phonetic/phonemic level.

  • Thus, we might conclude that Egyptian hieroglyphics are largely pleremic, while our modern alphabetic system is largely cenemic, though neither is exclusively so.

  • It is worth noting that decipherment of such archaeological materials differs from modern code decipherment because for the latter we can assume that a modern language was encoded, while in the former there are often no clues to the nature of the language, to what extent it is pleremic or cenemic, where “word breaks” occur (if, indeed, the language had words as we know them in English), and, in many instances, even the order in which the symbols were recorded.


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