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digraph

vr.tr.digraph · XCT.QLT

Let an agent explain digraphs and how they work, relay examples across scripts and their treatment in orthography and collation from linguistic sources, describe the specific forms the registry aliases name, and distinguish digraphs from ligatures, diphthongs, double letters that represent two sounds and trigraphs.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain digraphs and how they work, relay examples across scripts and their treatment in orthography and collation from linguistic sources, describe the specific forms the registry aliases name, and distinguish digraphs from ligatures, diphthongs, double letters that represent two sounds and trigraphs.

A pair of letters used together to represent a single sound or phoneme, as in English sh, th and ch, Latin-script digraphs in many languages, Cyrillic digraphs, the Armenian ou digraph, Arabic-script digraph forms and double letters such as ll and ss; digraphs are a kind of multigraph and are treated in some alphabets as single letters for collation.

What it is for: Representing sounds with two letters.

It can be explain the concept; relay examples across scripts; describe orthographic treatment; distinguish related concepts.

Distinguishing features

Two letters one sound

Script-specific

Collation treatment

Historical origins

What it looks like

Two letters written together.

Physical character

English consonant digraphs: sh, th, ch, ph, wh, ng list

Spanish ch and ll: letters until 2010 note - RAE

Armenian ou: digraph for u note

How it is recognised

Two letters for one sound

sh, th, ch, ll; Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian and Arabic-script digraphs

Ligatures join glyphs; diphthongs are vowel sounds; trigraphs use three letters

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

multigraph

is a kind of - in registry terms, of letters

ordered pair

is contrasted with - which joins glyphs

ligature

is exemplified by - in English

sh

In practice

Families and kinds

Latin-script digraphs in English, Spanish, Welsh and others

Cyrillic digraphs

Armenian and Georgian digraphs

Arabic-script digraph forms

double letters as digraphs

digraphs in romanisation systems

Standards and regulation

Orthographic rules of language academies

Unicode handling of digraphs and collation standards

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing digraphs with diphthongs or ligatures

Inconsistent collation across languages

Registry aliases including specific glyphs

Also called

double letterٸLatin-script digraphCyrillic digraphsՈւ/ուٵٷ

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a digraph is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a digraph, and how does it differ from a ligature, a diphthong, a double letter for two sounds and a trigraph? definition
  2. Is the question about the concept, a script, a language or collation? boundary

Examples

Examples.

Examples

Examples.

  1. What are common Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian and Arabic-script digraphs and double letters? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific script? action
Orthography Orthography.

Sources.

Rules

Rules.

Rules

Rules.

  1. How do orthographies define digraphs, and how do academies treat them as letters? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Collation

Collation and computing.

Collation

Collation.

  1. How are digraphs sorted and encoded, and what problems arise in computing? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
History History.

Sources.

Origins

Origins.

Origins

Origins.

  1. How did digraphs arise to represent sounds lacking letters, from Latin borrowings to Slavic scripts? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of the alphabet? action

Reforms

Reforms.

Reforms

Reforms.

  1. How have spelling reforms added or removed digraphs? provenance
  2. Which entry fits spelling reform? action
Context Teaching and romanisation.

Context.

Teaching

Teaching.

Teaching

Teaching.

  1. How are digraphs taught in literacy and phonics? provenance
  2. Which entry fits phonics? action

Romanisation

Romanisation.

Romanisation

Romanisation.

  1. How do romanisation systems use digraphs for non-Latin sounds? provenance
  2. Which entry fits romanization? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should Latin-script digraph and Cyrillic digraph be separate primary entries?
  • How should linguistic sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific glyphs; should they be split off?