abugidic

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adjective

Of or relating to an abugida.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. rareOf or relating to an abugida.

    Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]

    1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, →ISBN, page 26
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    […] and the script […] is modeled closely on Tibetan as to shape (though severely squared up) but is written in columns; it retains the abugidic principle, but places all the non-a vowel indicators after (i.e. below) the consonant they follow […]

    2008, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, The Handbook of Linguistics, →ISBN, page 62

    The earliest Tibetan inscriptions date from the 8th or 9th century, and Tibetan writing is based in the Brahmi family. It preserves the abugidic nature of its forebears, using appendages for the vowels […]

    2000, Chin-u Kim, Literacy and writing systems in Asia, page 77

Origin

From abugida + -ic.

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APA

abugidic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abugidic

MLA

“abugidic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abugidic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “abugidic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abugidic.

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