grapheme

smallest semantically distinguishing unit in a written language
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grapheme
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grapheme

Summary

grapheme ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (454 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • grapheme is credited with the discovery of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay[2].
  • grapheme's image is recorded as KAyiuSAKIK.png[3].
  • grapheme's image is recorded as Accadian for ni.jpg[4].
  • grapheme's subclass of is recorded as sign[5].
  • grapheme's subclass of is recorded as linguistic unit[6].
  • grapheme's subclass of is recorded as character[7].
  • grapheme's subclass of is recorded as emic unit[8].
  • grapheme's part of is recorded as alphabet[9].
  • grapheme's part of is recorded as string[10].
  • grapheme's part of is recorded as character set[11].
  • grapheme's Commons category is recorded as Graphemes[12].
  • grapheme's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1912-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • grapheme's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/039j8[14].
  • grapheme's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph839777[15].
  • grapheme's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Graphemes[16].
  • grapheme's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0112626[17].
  • grapheme's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox grapheme[18].
  • grapheme's has characteristic is recorded as glyph[19].
  • grapheme's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Grapheme[20].
  • grapheme's different from is recorded as phoneme[21].
  • grapheme's different from is recorded as morpheme[22].
  • grapheme's different from is recorded as graphene[23].
  • grapheme's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 3228[24].
  • grapheme's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 4565[25].
  • grapheme's studied by is recorded as linguistics[26].

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Works and Contributions

grapheme is credited with the discovery of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay[2].

Why It Matters

grapheme ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (454 views/month).[1] grapheme has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] grapheme is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] . scholarly article. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . scholarly article. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . datcatinfo.termweb.eu. datcatinfo.termweb.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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