{"id":8033,"date":"2012-12-28T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2012-12-28T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:02:11","slug":"scripts-and-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8033","title":{"rendered":"Scripts and alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to use the words script and alphabet fairly interchangeably &#8211; I might talk about the Arabic script or the Arabic alphabet, for example. However I just noticed today that Wikipedia has one page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyrillic_script\">Cyrillic script<\/a>, which focuses mainly on the history of the script\/alphabet, and separate pages for Cyrillic alphabets as used for particular languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc). The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_script\">Latin\/Roman script<\/a> is treated in a similar way. <\/p>\n<p>It seems that a script refers to the overall writing system rather than to the particular set of letters used to write a particular language, or alphabet. So you could talk about the Devanagari script, and the Hindi alphabet, i.e. the Devanagari letters used to write Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>Have you come across this distinction before? Do you think it&#8217;s a useful one to make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to use the words script and alphabet fairly interchangeably &#8211; I might talk about the Arabic script or the Arabic alphabet, for example. However I just noticed today that Wikipedia has one page on the Cyrillic script, which focuses mainly on the history of the script\/alphabet, and separate pages for Cyrillic alphabets as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}