WordNet
n. a writing system based on alphabetic characters [syn: alphabetic writing]
Usage examples of "alphabetic script".
Graphemes The ancient Arabic script, a naturally cursive script with up to four different forms for each letter (depending on its position-initial, medial, final, or uncon nected-m a word), has, through millennia of usage been streamlined and at times arbitrarily restructured so that it has come to be an alphabetic script with only one form of a letter per sound unit This latest innovation was attributed to the planetologist Liet-Kynes during his stay on Arrakis with the Fremen tribes Other pnor innovations included the introduction of symbols to represent vowels (ancient Arabic script indicated short vowels only by infrequently used diacritical marks) attributed to Ah Ben Ohasi and later modi fied by the Fremen in the fast copies of their desert survival manual, the Kitab al Ibar The Fremen script in use during die time .