What is Digraphia?
'''Digraphia''' means the use of more than one writing system for the same language.<ref>Cheung, Yat-Shing 1992. The form and meaning of digraphia: the case of Chinese. In K. Bolton; H. Kwok (eds.) ''Sociolinguistics Today'': International Perspectives. London: Routledge.</ref> The standard examples are [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] and [[Turkish language|Turkish]]. With Hindustani there is at the same time an [[Urdu]] version written in the Urdu script, and a [[Hindi]] version written in [[Devanagari]]. [[Japanese language|Japanese]] can use [[kanji]], which is based on [[logogram]]s, or [[hiragana]] or [[katakana]], which are [[Syllabic script|syllabic]]. The [[Romanization of Japanese]] also exists. [[Moldovan language|Moldovan]] is written in the [[Roman alphabet]] because it is almost the same as [[Romanian language|Romanian]]. But in parts of Moldovia, the [[Cyrillic script]] is used instead. The written languages are identical but use different scripts. == References == {{reflist}} == Related pages == *[[Multilingualism]] {{-}} {{Stub}} [[Category:Writing systems]]