Alphabets and Writing Systems

• abbreviation
• ablaut
• acrolect
• acronym
• affix
• Afroasiatic
• agglutination
• allomorph
• alphabet
• alphabetize
• alternation
• amelioration
• American Sign Language
• analogy
• analytic
• Anglo-Saxon
• antepenult
• anthropological linguistics
• antonym
• apophony
• applied linguistics
• Aramaic
• archaism
• argot
• artificial language
• Austronesian
• baby talk
• Baltic
• Bantu
• base
• baseliect
• bilingual
• blend
• bound form
• boustrophedon
• Braille
• Briticism
• calque
• cant
• Celtic
• citation
• code-switching
• coinage
• collocation
• colloquial
• combining form
• comment
• comparative linguistics
• competence
• computational linguistics
• connotation
• contamination
• corpus
• Creole
• Cuneiform
• Cursive
• Cyrillic
• dead language
• deep structure
• definiendum
• definiens
• demotic
• denotation
• derivation
• descriptive grammar
• descriptive linguistics
• Devanagari
• diachronic
• dialect
• dialect atlas
• dialectology
• dictionary
• diglossia
• direct discourse
• discourse analysis
• doublet
• Dravidian
• eponym
• Esperanto
• etymology
• etymon
• expression
• eye dialect
• fingerspellling
• fluency
• folk etymology
• formal
• franlais
• free form
• generative grammar
• Germanic
• ghost word
• glossary
• grapheme
• graphology
• Grimm's law
• Hangul
• hapax legomenon
• Hellenic
• heteronym
• hieratic
• hieroglyphic
• hieroglyphics
• historial linguistics
• Hobson-Jobson
• holophrase
• homograph
• homonym
• homophone
• honorific
• hypercorrection
• ideogram
• ideograph
• idiolect
• idiom
• illiteracy
• Indic
• indirect discourse
• Indo-Aryan
• Indo-European
• Indo-Iranian
• infix
• informal
• informant
• Inranian
• interlingual
• isogloss
• Italic
• Japlish
• jargon
• jive
• kana
• kanji
• kings English
• Kufic
• language
• language family
• language universal
• latin
• latin alphabet
• lemmaletter
• lexaeme
• lexical
• lexicographer
• lexicography
• lexicology
• lexicon
• lingo
• lingua franca
• linguist
• linguistic atlas
• linguistics
• lipreading
• literacy
• literatim
• loan translation
• loanword
• logogram
• longhand
• Macronic
• Malayo-Polynesian
• manual alphabet
• melioration
• metalanguage
• metalinguistics
• Middle English
• Modern English
• morpheme
• morphology
• morphonophoneme
• morphophonemics
• mother tongue
• multilingual
• native speaker
• natural language
• neologism
• Niger-Congo
• nonce word
• nonstandard
• nonverbal communication
• Old English
• onomastics
• orismology
• orthography
• paradigmatic
• paragraph
• paralanguage
• parlance
• paronym
• patois
• patronymic
• pejoration
• penult
• performance
• philology
• phonogram
• phraseogram
• pictograph
• picture writing
• pidgin
• pinylin
• pochismo
• polyglot
• polysemous
• polyshnthestic
• portmanteau word
• pragmatics
• prefix
• prescriptive grammar
• protolanguage
• provincialism
• proxemics
• psycholinguistics
• queen's English
• reconstruction
• reformed spelling
• regionalism
• relect
• rheme
• rhotacism
• romaji
• Roman alphabet
• Romance language
• romanzation
• root
• rune
• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• script
• semantics
• semiotics
• Semitic
• shorthand
• sign
• sign language
• signed English
• signing
• Sino-Tibetan
• slang
• Slavic
• sociolect
• sociolinguistics
• sognate
• sound symbolism
• source language
• speech community
• spelling
• Sprachgefuhl
• standard
• stem
• structural linguistics
• structuralism
• substandard
• substratum
• suffix
• Sumerian
• superstratum
• surface structure
• syllabary
• synaesthesia
• synchronic
• syncretism
• synonym
• syntactics
• syntagmatic
• syntax
• synthestic
• tagmeme
• tagmemics
• target language
• taxeme
• theme
• thesaurus
• tone language
• toneme
• tongue
• topic
• transformational grammar
• translation
• transliteration
• ultima
• uncial
• usage
• variant
• verbatim
• vernacular
• vocabulary
• vulgar
• vulgarism
• Wade-Giles system
• word
• word-hoard
• zoosemiotics