Essays about: "Latin alphabet"

Found 5 essays containing the words Latin alphabet.

  1. 1. My Persian alphabet

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk

    Author : Charlotte Askari; [2014-03-24]
    Keywords : Illustration; Literacy; Bilingualism; Ortography; Phonology;

    Abstract : The goal of this project has been to boost the earliest stages of literacy development in children bilingual in Swedish and Persian. My Persian alphabet has been created to serve as a tool that will help children recognize the capital (isolated) letters of the Persian script and be able to sound them. READ MORE

  3. 2. A graphotactic language metric

    University essay from KTH/Matematik (Inst.)

    Author : Joar Bagge; [2013]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In this bachelor’s thesis, we try to classify and identify written human languages by studying the ordering of letters in text. Automatic language identification is of interest in areas such as text indexing, machine translation and natural language parsing. READ MORE

  4. 3. Orthographic Typology - a comparative study of the Latin orthographies of Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Filip Larsson; [2012]
    Keywords : genealogical; Latin alphabet; orthography; grapheme; areal; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explain the variation that is found among the Latin orthographies of Europe. The main question is if it can be explained as genealogical, areal or social. The hypothesis presented in this thesis is that genealogical factors are the most important. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Anyway, staraus ne sidet doma." : An explorative study of the Russian language in sms.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ryska

    Author : Richard Hylerstedt; [2009]
    Keywords : Russian; sms; technology mediated communication; orthography; transliteration; slang; youth language; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore how the Russian language is used in text messaging on mobile phones. The focus of my work is strictly linguistic, and does not involve analysis of content or context. Within the linguistic area I have studied various aspects, for example orthography, reductions and style. READ MORE

  6. 5. Allograph-Based Categorization of Handwriting Styles

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Nils Rosengren; [2002]
    Keywords : Handstil; Handskriven text; Allograf; Handstilsskillnader; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim of this work is to aid the development of online handwriting recognition software by using a linguistic approach to the problem of categorizing handwriting styles. This is done by exploring the wide variety of styles among users of the Latin alphabet, trying to explain the variety and finding ways of categorizing the styles. READ MORE