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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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.