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Definitions

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  • proper noun An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867.

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Examples

  • This was during my first year studying Chinese, and what Visible Speech had to say about Chinese characters - and other writing systems - was formative in my approach to learning written Chinese.

    bokane.org 2009

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