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abugidic

abugidic adjective: of or relating to an abugida.

Adjective

abugidic

  1. (rare) Of or relating to an abugida.
    • Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, →ISBN, page 26
    • […] and the script […] is modeled closely on Tibetan as to shape (though severely squared up) but is written in columns; it retains the abugidic principle, but places all the non-a vowel indicators after (i.e. below) the consonant they follow […]2008, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, The Handbook of Linguistics, →ISBN, page 62

Origin of abugidic

From abugida + -ic.

Questions about abugidic

What does abugidic mean?
Abugidic means of or relating to an abugida.
What part of speech is abugidic?
Abugidic is an adjective.

Words near abugidic in the dictionary

  1. abuelo
  2. abuelos
  3. Abughazaleh
  4. abugida
  5. abugidas
  6. abugidic
  7. Abui
  8. abuilding
  9. abuite
  10. Abuja
  11. Abujam

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