Orthography : Art of writing
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Orthography
• Set of Conventions for writing a language.
• It Includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word
breaks, emphasis, punctuation.
• Etymology : ortho - correct, graphy - to write
• Unit : Grapheme
Types of Orthography
• Logographic – symbols represents words or morphemes.
• Syllabic – representing syllables.
• Alphabetic – representing phonemes
grapheme
A unit of writing system consisting all of the written symbols or
sequences of written symbols are used to represent a phoneme.
Letters
• Graphemes – Written Character- Visual
• Phonemes – Sounds- Auditory
Concepts in Visuals of Letters
• Graphs
• Graphemes
• Characters
• Glyphs
• Cheremes
• Codes
• Symbols, fonts