An abugida , sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, like a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel The fundamentals of abjad numerals are covered in the relevant Wikipedia entry, and they are observed here faithfully.(I've also posted a table of letter values for good measure.) If one digs a bit deeper, however, questions and ambiguities begin to arise… The treatment of the four "Persian letters" — pe, che, zhe, and gāf — is in fact relatively straightforward. European languages and Semantic languages are highly inflectional, and they use Alphabet and Abjad respectively. Indian languages like Tamil(Dravidian), and Japanese(Japonic) are agglutinative, and use abugida and syllabary respectively. Chinese is a highly analytic language and it uses ideograms. An abugida (/ ɑː b ʊ ˈ ɡ iː d ə, ˈ æ b-/ ⓘ, from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, like a diacritical mark.This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have .

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