Evelyn Venegas/Assignment #1/alphabet city

1. Which letters of the English alphabet are vowels and which ones are consonants?
The letters A, E, I, O, U are considered to be vowels; the remaining letters are considered to be consonants. However, W, Y may occasionally function as a vowel as well.

2. True or False: The word, alphabet, came from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta?
True

3. There are dozens of alphabets in use in the world today. Most use a type of linear writing. Name 3 examples of alphabets which do NOT use linear writing?
alphabets NON-linear : Fingerspelling, Braille and Morse code

4. The term, alphabet, refers to a writing system which represents which 2 types of spoken sounds?
The term alphabet prototypically- refers to a writing system that has characters (graphemes) wich represent both consonat and vowel sounds, even though there may not be a complete one-to-on correspondence between symblo and sound

5. Name 2 types of writing systems which are non-Alphabetic representations.
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters are two of the best-known writing systems with predominantly non-alphabetic representations.