History of the alphabet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabetThe history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used for Semitic languages in the Levant in the 2nd millennium BCE. Most or nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic proto-alphabet. Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script developed in Ancient Egypt to represent the language …
NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabetThe International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, NATO spelling alphabet, ICAO phonetic alphabet or ICAO spelling alphabet, is the most widely used radiotelephone spelling alphabet.The ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code is a rarely used variant that differs in the code words for digits.. To create the code, a series of …
International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_AlphabetAn IPA symbol is often distinguished from the sound it is intended to represent, since there is not necessarily a one-to-one correspondence between letter and sound in broad transcription, making articulatory descriptions such as "mid front rounded vowel" or "voiced velar stop" unreliable. While the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association states that no official names exist for its symbols, it admits the presence of one or two common names for each. The symbols also have nonce …