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Visible Speech

Visible Speech proper noun: an early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867, with the characters intended to suggest the articulations of the speech organs when uttering them.

Proper noun

Visible Speech

  1. An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867, with the characters intended to suggest the articulations of the speech organs when uttering them.

Questions about Visible Speech

What does Visible Speech mean?
Visible Speech means an early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867, with the characters intended to suggest the articulations of the speech organs when uttering them.
What part of speech is Visible Speech?
Visible Speech is a proper noun.

Words near Visible Speech in the dictionary

  1. visible minorities
  2. visible minority
  3. visible spectra
  4. visible spectrum
  5. visible spectrums
  6. Visible Speech
  7. visible trade
  8. visible trades
  9. visible web
  10. visibleness
  11. visibles

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