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Florian Coulmas
This chapter of the encyclopedia on writing systems, scripts and orthographies all world's major languages discusses terms concepts beginning with alphabet ‘O’︁. It commences a discussion Ogham script, okurigana Old Bulgarian writing. script is an alphabetic attested in some 500 stone inscriptions southern Ireland, Wales Scotland. The these dating from fourth century CE are Celtic stock, Irish Pictish. In Japanese system, syllabic kana signs added to Chinese character (kanji) represent inflectional or other endings. general idea that lexical stems written kanji, while reserved for was ecclesiastical language orthodox Slavs throughout Middle Ages. also talks about systems including orthography reform ostracon.