
David Diringer
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LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Reader in Semitic Epigraphy, University of Cambridge, 1966–68. Founder and Director, Alphabet Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. Author of The Alphabet.
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Alphabet, set of graphs, or characters, used to represent the phonemic structure of a language. In most alphabets the characters are arranged in a definite order, or sequence (e.g., A, B, C, etc.). In the usual case, each alphabetic character represents either a consonant or a vowel rather than a…
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