Alphabet Alphabet An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) that represent the phonemes (basic significant sounds) of any spoken language it is used to write. This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries (in which each character represents a syllable) and logographic systems (in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit). The first fully phonemic script, the Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is considered to be the first alphabet, and is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and
Zazaki alphabet in 1903. After 1980s, American philologist C. M. Jacobson created an alphabet for Zaza language and this alphabet named as Jacobson alphabet and widely in use for Zazaki. Zazaki alphabet The Zazaki alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Zaza language, consisting of 32 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ü, Ş, and Ê) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language. The letters of the Zazaki alphabet are: Zazaki language was written using a Persian form of the Arabic script in Ahmad al-Hasi's work "Mewlıdê Nebi"