Consonant letter (from the Latin. Consonantia "consonance, harmony, harmony; consistency, coincidence"; from consonant "consonant") - a type of phonetic writing that conveys only or mainly consonant sounds .
In foreign literature, consonant writing systems are also called abjadas (by the name of the alphabet in Arabic, “abjadia”). The term abjad is proposed by Peter Daniels (Peter T. Daniels), along with abugida . By him, the researcher means the consonant itself, while the second corresponds to the consonant-syllable.
Consonant writing is often transitional from syllable writing to completely phonetic , but it is more convenient for the latter to use in languages whose main morphological mechanism is ablaut , preserving the consonant root “skeleton”, but greatly varying vocation, for example, in Semitic ones . Examples of fully consonant writing are Ugaritic and Phoenician writing, examples of partially consonant are modern Hebrew and Arabic letters containing signs for some vowels ( mattress lektionis ), an example of syllable consonant with associated (not having a separate sign) vowels - Indian Devanagari . Vowels that are not expressed by the mattress of the lection , may be indicated in the text by optional accents ( voicing ).
See also
- Consonant vocal writing