Concept

Orthography

Overview

set of conventions for writing a language

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Orthography

• William Torrey Harris
• Nigidius Figulus

Related ideas

• Grapheme
• Glyph
• Language
• Latin alphabet
• Natural language
• Arabic alphabet
• Linguistics
• Phoneme
• Writing system
• Abstraction
• Writing
• W
• Digraph (orthography)
• Royal Spanish Academy
• Czech language
• Convention (norm)
• Dialect

Opposing perspectives

• Grammar

Place in the tradition

Part of Metaphilosophy.

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