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
Siddhaṃ script Siddhaṃ script , also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is a script used for writing Sanskrit from c. 550 – c. 1200. It is descended from the Brahmi script via the Gupta script and later evolved into the Assamese alphabet, the Maithili alphabet, the Bengali alphabet, and the Tibetan alphabet. There is some confusion over the spelling: ' and ' are both common, though "" is preferred as "correct". The script is a refinement of the script used during the Gupta Empire. The word means "accomplished" or "perfected" in Sanskrit. The script received its name from the