writing system

English

Etymology

From writing +‎ system.

Noun

writing system (plural writing systems)

1. (linguistics) A system for writing one or more languages; a particular alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, or other scheme. For example, the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet.
2. (linguistics, specifically) The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.

Synonyms

• (system for writing one or more languages) script

Translations

system for writing one or more languages

• Bulgarian: пи́сменост (bg) f (písmenost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書寫系統 / 书写系统 (zh) (shūxiě xìtǒng), 文字 (zh) (wénzì)

• Esperanto: skribsistemo
• Finnish: kirjoitusjärjestelmä (fi)
• French: système d’écriture (fr) m, écriture (fr) f
• Russian: пи́сьменность f (písʹmennostʹ), письмо́ n (pisʹmó)
• Turkish: yazı dizgesi

basic type of system for writing languages

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書寫系統 / 书写系统 (zh) (shūxiě xìtǒng), 文字 (zh) (wénzì)

• Finnish: kirjoitusjärjestelmä (fi)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: sistema d'escriptura f
• Esperanto: skribsistemo
• Latin: systema scripturae
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: sistema de escrita
• Romanian: sistem de scriere
• Spanish: sistema de escritura f

References

• Florian Coulmas ed. (1999), sv “writing system” in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Blackwell Publishing (Blackwell Reference Online, accessed 2013-02-08).