Assignment 1

1. Which letters of the English alphabet are vowels and which ones are consonants?

The English Alphabet has 26 letters.
- 5 of the letters are "vowels". A E I O U
- 21 are "consonants": B C D F G H J K L M N P Q R S T V W X Y Z.

2. True or False: The word, alphabet, came from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta?

It’s ture because the word "alphabet" came into Middle English from the Late Latin word Alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Ancient Greek Αλφάβητος Alphabetos, from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

3. There are dozens of alphabets in use in the world today. Most use a type of linear writing. Name 3 examples of alphabets which do NOT use linear writing?

Non-linear systems, such as braille, are not composed of lines, no matter which instrument is used to write them.
Braille is a non-linear adaptation of the Latin alphabet that completely abandoned the Latin forms. The letters are composed of raised bumps on the writing substrate, which can be leather (Louis Braille's original material), stiff paper, plastic, or metal.

Cuneiform was probably the earliest non-linear writing. Its glyphs were formed by pressing the end of a reed stylus into moist clay, not by tracing lines in the clay with the stylus as had been done previously. The result was a radical transformation of the appearance of the script.

There are also transient non-linear adaptations of the Latin alphabet, including Morse code, the manual alphabets of various sign languages, and semaphore, in which flags or bars are positioned at prescribed angles. However, if "writing" is defined as a potentially permanent means of recording information, then these systems do not qualify as writing at all, since the symbols disappear as soon as they are used.

4. The term, alphabet, refers to a writing system which represents which 2 types of spoken sounds?

The term alphabet prototypically refers to a writing system that has characters (graphemes) which represent both consonant and vowel sounds, even though there may not be a complete one-to-one correspondence between symbol and sound.

5. Name 2 types of writing systems which are NON-Alphabetic representations.

Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters are two of the best-known writing systems with predominantly non-alphabetic representations.

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My name is Elvira Astudillo. I was born on April 03 of 1987 in Santa Cruz. Bolivia. When I was 5 years my parents decided to come to live to Chile in search of better life opportunities.

I have two older brothers. Oscar (31) and viviana(29) and I have five nieces and two nephews.

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