Alphabet (disambiguation)
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An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
Alphabet may also be in whole or in part the title of a composition:
- Alphabet song, a mnemonic used for learning the Latin alphabet
- The Alphabet (song), one of the Nonsense Madrigals of György Ligeti
- The Alphabet (see The Short Films of David Lynch#The Alphabet), a 1968 short film by David Lynch
- The Alphabet, may refer to a single poem by Ron Silliman, composed between 1979 & 2004
Other
- Alphabet (computer science), a finite set of characters or digits.
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system of phonetic notation used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent the sounds used in spoken human language.
- NATO phonetic alphabet, a common name for the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, where letters are assigned names to make them readily understood by voice communication; often used by militaries, two-way radio operators, and airlines.
- Alphabits, a breakfast cereal.