Acrophony

Akrophonie ( sound from the Greek akros = peak and phonein = ) is the method to name the letters of a writing for an object or an animal that starts with the same letter. An example of this is the Phoenician script:

  • Aleph = ox
  • Beth = house
  • Gimel = camel
  • Dalet = door leaf

This is the first step in the conversion of a character font in an alphabetic script.

See also

Afaka font

Afaka syllabary
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