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@kopopp an alphabet is a type of script. the script is the part of the orthography (written form ...

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@kopopp an alphabet is a type of script. the script is the part of the orthography (written form of the language) that provides the framework, like a base set of glyphs, the base unit represented by one (phoneme, syllable or consonant) and the direction its written in

it is not tied to the specific phonemes because in spoken languages these shift around quite a lot and wether the written form is updated is never guaranteed

so for example, most romance languages shifted their c’s from a sound more similar to k (as it was in latin), to a softened one like you just thought of it as, but some words werent included in this. thats how italian has both c as in caffè and c as in ciao

the orthography changed massively here specifically because the script didnt


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