alphabet

• And to cite one instance, when the Mayan Indians were conquered by the Spaniards, they had an imperfect and extremely difficult system of ideographic symbols, and as soon as they learned about the infinitely easier Spanish alphabet from the Spanish priests they dropped their own writing and took to writing Romanized Mayon—as they continue to do to this very day, publishing their own books and newspapers in Maya. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
• The official religion was Orthodox, and the alphabet was a variation on Cyrillic. —  PurchasedforRevenge
• Website also commented positively about the fact that TRT 6 used standard Kurdish alphabet, including the letters w, q, x, which doesn't exist in Turkish alphabet.
• For Korean and Japanese there are other various systems … That's basically where you try to keep the pronounciation of your name but you write it in English alphabet. —  reappropriate
• (Because in Greek alphabet, there is no letter "ş" (= Sh), they were called A-syrians "Asyrians" and after a while this became "Asiryan" and than "Syrian"). —  American Chronicle

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