Words similar to orthography
Example sentences for: orthography
How can you use “orthography” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The alphabet was trimmed of a letter that had become phonetically superfluous, as c has become in English, and the orthography was simplified by the omission of the hard sign after final hard consonants.
The text is punctuated here and there by tables showing the progressive development of selected symbols (as, for example, in Sumerian), the Devanagari syllabary (in which several modern and ancient Indian languages are written), the Hebrew, Arabic, and other alphabets, Chinese and Japanese writing, and attractive drawings showing the hieroglyphic (with sound values in English orthography).
The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.
The circonflexe , on the other hand, is really a sign of orthography , not pronunciation, being a reminder of a dropped s—it is usually there for historical reasons but connoting a reason which has long since ceased to make sense and which modern French speakers have probably been blithely unaware of.
The orthography used here for the Serbian slang-words is not a standardized transliteration of today's Serbian Cyrillics, and not an official Latin spelling--which would be Croatian, and therefore taboo.