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For
the
scripts
of
the
Semitic
languages,
five
categories
are
needed:
logography,
syllabary,
abjad,
alphabet,
and
abugida.
A
sixth,
featural
script,
appears
when
Arabic
script
is
adapted
to
non-Semitic
languages.
[…]
(The
English
word
"abugida"
is
borrowed
from
the
Amharic
term
for
the
letters
of
the
script
when
taken
in
the
order
known
from
the
Ge'ez
transliterations
of
the
Hebrew
letter
names
found
in
the
superscriptions
of
the
sections
of
Psalm
119,
as
used
in
the
liturgy;
it
takes
the
first
four
consonants
and
the
first
four
vowels
in
their
traditional
order
of
presentation.)
