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Meaning of "heterography" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HETEROGRAPHY

ˌhɛtəˈrɒɡrəfɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETEROGRAPHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heterography is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HETEROGRAPHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heterography and homography

In linguistics, heterography is a property of a written language, such that it lacks a 1-to-1 correspondence between the written symbols and the sounds of the spoken language. Its opposite is homography, which is the property of a language such that written symbols of its written form and the sounds of its spoken form have a 1-to-1 correspondence. The orthography of the English language is, according to Larry Trask, a "spectacular example" of heterography. But most European languages exhibit it to some extent. Finnish is "very close" to being a systematically homographic language. A phonemic transcription is, by its nature, homographic, also. The degree of heterography of a language is a factor in how difficult it is for person to learn to read that language, with highly heterographic orthographies being more difficult to learn than more homographic ones. Many people have espoused the point of view that the extreme heterographic nature of English is a disadvantage in several respects. These include, for example, Dr.

Definition of heterography in the English dictionary

The definition of heterography in the dictionary is the phenomenon of different letters or sequences of letters representing the same sound in different words, as for example -ight and -ite in blight and bite. Other definition of heterography is any writing system in which this phenomenon occurs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETEROGRAPHY

aerography · arthrography · chirography · chorography · electrography · fluorography · hierography · horography · hydrography · micrography · orography · petrography · photomicrography · polarography · pyrography · reprography · spectrography · urography · xerography · xylopyrography

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETEROGRAPHY

heterogamous · heterogamy · heterogeneity · heterogeneous · heterogeneously · heterogeneousness · heterogenesis · heterogenetic · heterogenetically · heterogenic · heterogenous · heterogeny · heterogonic · heterogonous · heterogonously · heterogony · heterograft · heterographic · heterographical · heterogynous

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETEROGRAPHY

autobiography · bibliography · biography · calligraphy · choreography · chromatography · cinematography · computed tomography · cryptography · crystallography · discography · filmography · geography · historiography · oceanography · photography · pornography · tomography · topography · typography · videography

Synonyms and antonyms of heterography in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heterography» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF HETEROGRAPHY

Find out the translation of heterography to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of heterography from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heterography» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

heterography
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

heterography
570 millions of speakers
en

English

heterography
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

heterography
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كتابة مغايرة للمقصود
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

heterography
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

heterography
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

heterography
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

heterography
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Heterografi
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

heterography
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

heterography
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

heterography
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Heterography
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

heterography
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

heterography
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हिटरोग्राफी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

heterography
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

heterography
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

heterography
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

heterography
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

heterography
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

heterography
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heterography
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heterography
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heterography
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heterography

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROGRAPHY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of heterography
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heterography

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETEROGRAPHY»

Discover the use of heterography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heterography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Heterography and Homography
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Evander Luther, 2011
2
A Plea for Phonotypy and Phonography: Or, Speech-printing ...
These men do not want a dead heterography, they want a means of representing living speech. They do not deal with manuscripts which no one can read with certainty, clothed in cabalistic characters, which " Show the eyes, and grieve the ...
Alexander John Ellis, 1845
3
While Homer Roared: Clean Limericks, to Warm the Chuckles of ...
Heterography. The teacher made this observation: “There are 10 kinds of folks in the nation. Some don't have a clue, But the others, like you, Are familiar with binary notation.” A teacher of renown Told students in his town: “Whenever you ...
Basil Wentworth, 2007
4
Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
Readers familiar with Michel de Certeau may recognize an apparent similarity between heterography and the heterologies to which de Certeau refers in his Heterologies: Discourse on the Other, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University ...
Ronald Schechter, 2003
5
Glossary of Hindi/Urdu and English linguistic terminology : ...
anyathoccaran -, heterographic spelling (CSTT 1992: 123), heterography (CSTT 1992: 123); anyoccaran- -, heterographic spelling (CSTT 1973: 619; CSTT 1982: 42), heterography (CSTT 1973: 619); asamlekh- -, heterographic spelling (CSTT  ...
Umberto Nardella, 2008
6
A Companion to African-American Philosophy
heterography – is how they indicate a persistent if not chronic problem that is not at all limited to the field of ethnological philology. This is the problem of determining an objective basis for transcribing spoken language. In the instance of ...
Tommy L. Lott, John P. Pittman, 2008
7
Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
206 heterography (b) different stem forms are found in one paradigm (e.g. Eng. to be, are, was from three Indo-European roots). (=> also suppletivism) heterography [Grk heteros 'different,' graph- ein 'to write'] 1 Use of the same written sign for ...
Hadumod Bussmann, Kerstin Kazzazi, Gregory Trauth, 2006
8
The phonographic instructor
Phonographers however foretell, and any one may foresee that the time is near when the darkness of heterography shall be dispersed by the full light of phonetics. A challenge has gone forth, and the call of phonography must be heard.
James Curtis Booth, 1849
9
The Fonetic Jurnal
In order to secure as great a likeness to heterography as can be obtained, without deviating from acknowledged phonetic laws, we intend to represent the natural vowel, full, as in cur, maker, and stopped, as in cut, harry, by two different types ...
Isaac Pitman, Alexander John Ellis, 1844
10
Wecli Fonetic Advocat ...
34. Upon a committee like that proposed, some intelligent gentleman should be placed who has never been trammelled with heterography; there boing doubtless many such among the "5,000,000 Englishmen who cannot read." 35. The vowel ...
‎1850
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Heterography [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/heterography>. May 2024 ».
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