abugida

Meaning

1. A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
2. A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, typically such that symbols for different syllables are generated by adding, altering or removing the vowel portion, often by applying a diacritic to a stable consonant symbol.

Synonyms

Gurmukhi

ergative case

Devanagari alphabet

Translations

abugida

abugida

Abugida

Hindi

χίντι

hindi

hindî

semi-syllabaire

alphasyllabaire

hindi

alfasillabario

abugida

Hindi

abugida

indi

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɑːbuˈɡiːdə/

Etymology

From Ge'ez አቡጊዳ (ʾäbugida). First use appears c. 1961. See cite below.