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The 23 pages that link to Alphabet, each with the reason it gives.

• Chinese charactersCompared with: Unlike alphabets, Chinese characters generally represent morphemes and syllables rather than individual phonemes.

• LiteracyRelated: Alphabetic systems made written language representable with a relatively small set of signs.

• Cyrillic scriptNarrower topic: Cyrillic belongs to the alphabetic writing-system family.

• Writing systemBroader topic: Alphabets map signs primarily to phonemes, making them one major system type.

• Phoenician alphabetNarrower topic: Phoenician helped establish the alphabetic tradition later expanded to mark vowels.

• AbjadCompared with: Unlike an abjad, an alphabet normally gives vowels full letter status.

• Latin alphabetNarrower topic: The Latin alphabet is one historically influential member of this writing-system family.

• AbugidaCompared with: Unlike an abugida, an alphabet does not normally attach an inherent vowel to consonant letters.

• Ancient Near EastRelated: Alphabetic scripts developed in the region and transformed how writing could be learned and used.

• Late Bronze Age collapseRelated: Alphabetic writing expanded in the post-collapse world as complex palace scribal systems disappeared.

• Arabic alphabetNarrower topic: The broad alphabet category helps distinguish Arabic’s traditional consonant emphasis from full vowel notation.

• SyllabaryCompared with: Alphabets encode smaller sound units than syllabaries.

• David LynchBroader topic: It shows his early use of sound, bodies, and images to turn ordinary experience uncanny.

• WritingBroader topic: Alphabetic writing represents speech through a relatively small inventory of letters.

• Chinese writingCompared with: Chinese characters generally represent morphemes and syllables rather than individual phonemes.

• History of writingRelated: Alphabetic systems reorganized the relation between signs and spoken language.

• Phonemic orthographyRelated: An alphabet can support phonemic spelling when its letter mappings are consistent.

• Khmer scriptCompared with: Unlike an alphabet, Khmer consonant letters carry inherent vowels.

• LogogramCompared with: Alphabetic writing primarily encodes speech sounds rather than words or morphemes.

• TifinaghNarrower topic: Tifinagh is classified as an alphabet, with conventions varying by form.

• Brahmic scriptsCompared with: Unlike a typical Brahmic abugida, an alphabet does not assign each consonant a default vowel.

• Cherokee languageCompared with: Cherokee’s syllabary represents syllables rather than the separate sounds typical of an alphabet.

• Proto-writingCompared with: An alphabet encodes pronunciation systematically, unlike proto-writing.