Digraphia refers to the use of more than one writing system for the same language. Digraphia can be synchronic, meaning that two (or more) writing systems are used at the same time for the same language, or diachronic, meaning that the writing system used has changed over time, one writing system succeeding another over time. A writing system is a type of Symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in Language.
Synchronic digraphia
The best example of synchronic digraphia is Serbian. Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language, Both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are widely used in Serbia in a large variety of contexts, and most people are literate in both scripts. The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by
Some authorities consider Japanese to be a case of synchronic digraphia, as it has three different scripts. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities Other authorities disagree, however, pointing out that all three scripts are part of the same writing system, and have a defined job to play within that system. It is not usual for the possibility to exist to write an entire text in three different versions, one in each script. In Serbian this is always possible.
An element of synchronic digraphia is present in many languages not using the Latin script, in particular in text messages and when typing on a computer which does have the facility to represent the usual script for that language. In such cases, Latin script is often used, although systems of transcription are often not standardised.
Many writers, both from China and from abroad (e. g. John DeFrancis) have argued for digraphia to be implemented as a standard for the Chinese language. John DeFrancis (born 1911 is a Chinese language professor emeritus and researcher at the University of Hawaii who wrote a number of Chinese instructional texts (his This is because the current Chinese writing system is hard to learn, and has a huge number of symbols compared to alphabetic systems.
Diachronic digraphia
Many cases exist of the script used to write a language being changed. Examples are Romanian (which originally used Cyrillic then changed to Latin); Turkish (Arabic then Latin), and many languages of former Soviet Central Asia, which abandoned the Cyrillic script after the dissolution of the USSR. Romanian or Daco-Romanian ( dated: Rumanian or Roumanian; self designation limba română, ˈlimba roˈmɨnə is a Romance The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
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