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The 25 pages that link to Abjad, each with the reason it gives.

• Writing systemBroader topic: Abjads illustrate a consonant-centered way of representing speech.

• Phoenician alphabetNarrower topic: The Phoenician alphabet is a foundational example of this kind of script.

• Latin alphabetCompared with: An abjad organizes written sound differently from the Latin alphabet's usual representation of vowels and consonants.

• AlphabetCompared with: Unlike a full alphabet, it does not ordinarily give vowels equal status as basic signs.

• AbugidaCompared with: An abjad generally lacks the obligatory inherent vowel characteristic of an abugida.

• AramaicRelated: Aramaic writing generally records consonants rather than fully spelling every vowel.

• GraphemeRelated: Abjads show how a writing system can assign graphemes selectively to sound categories.

• Arabic alphabetNarrower topic: Arabic is commonly described as an abjad because short vowels are usually optional.

• SyllabaryCompared with: Abjads omit many vowel distinctions that syllabaries encode explicitly.

• WritingRelated: Abjads show that writing can represent language while omitting many vowel sounds.

• Arabic diacriticsRelated: Arabic’s usual omission of short vowels reflects its abjad structure.

• DiacriticRelated: Many abjads can omit vowel diacritics in ordinary text and add them for clarity.

• Hebrew alphabetNarrower topic: Hebrew belongs to this broad script type.

• Aramaic alphabetNarrower topic: The Aramaic alphabet is an abjad: its core letters denote consonants.

• Phoenician languageRelated: Phoenician writing primarily recorded consonants rather than full vowel sequences.

• History of writingCompared with: Abjads contrast with alphabets in how they encode vowels.

• Phonemic orthographyCompared with: An abjad does not consistently write every phoneme, especially vowels.

• Quranic orthographyNarrower topic: The Arabic script’s consonant-centered structure shapes Quranic spelling.

• Urdu alphabetRelated: Urdu generally omits short-vowel marks in ordinary text, as abjad-like scripts do.

• LogogramCompared with: An abjad encodes consonantal sounds, not lexical units as logograms do.

• Perso-Arabic scriptNarrower topic: This writing-system type explains why short vowels are often omitted in everyday Perso-Arabic writing.

• Brahmic scriptsCompared with: It contrasts with Brahmic scripts’ routine representation of vowels through inherent vowels and marks.

• English alphabetCompared with: English normally writes vowels as letters, unlike typical abjad practice.

• History of the alphabetNarrower topic: Many early alphabets, including Phoenician, functioned principally as abjads.

• Jawi scriptNarrower topic: Jawi retains features of the Arabic abjad while Malay spelling represents vowels more fully.